Course information

Ready to take your Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial data skills to the next level? The intermediate GIS course provides students with in-depth training in GIS, to meet the needs of 21st-century spatial analytics. This course enhances the toolkit of IT professionals, managers, and others, empowering them to derive actionable insights using spatial data.

This course follows the initial GIS Introduction course offered by CCE. Topics include geoprocessing tools, automation of spatial processes, raster imagery, metadata management, and more. The course uses the ArcGIS Pro software.

Developed by ESRI, this software supersedes legacy ArcMap products and will easy to use for those already familiar to existing ArcMap users.

Aims

This course aims to provide you with a deeper understanding of GIS techniques. It aims to increase your confidence, efficiency, and proficiency in working with spatial data, enabling you to meet the ongoing demand for critical GIS skills. 

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to: 

• create ArcGIS Pro projects
• edit spatial data
• define and edit data schemas to define new spatial data sources
• work with and process other spatial data formats like KML and GeoJSON
• use and process raster spatial data
• build automated geoprocessing tasks in ModelBuilder, Python programming or R programming.

Content

Review of GIS Introduction course

Setup and tour of ArcGIS Pro

• Project creation
• The ArcGIS Pro interface
• Base maps
• Navigate tools
• Inquiry tools

Editing data

• Editing spatial geometries
• Editing feature attributes

Data schemas

• Fields view
• Adding, calculating and deleting attributes
• Creating centroids
• Standard joins & Spatial joins

Other spatial data formats

• XY coordinates, KLM, json/geojson

Raster data

• Converting features to raster data
• Extract by mask
• Reclassifying
• Raster analysis

Programmatic GIS

• ModelBuilder
• Python programming language
• R programming language

Intended audience

This course is designed for industry professionals and managers looking to enhance their GIS and spatial data skill set or those looking to upskill for labour market competitiveness.

Prerequisites

It is assumed you have completed CCE’s GIS: Introduction course or have equivalent knowledge.

Delivery mode

Face-to-face, presenter-taught training in a computer lab.

Delivery style

Taught over one day, an interactive workshop that includes lectures, individual exercises and discussion.

Materials

All course materials and files are available electronically (via Dropbox).

Recommended reading

Bolstad, P 2016, GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems (5th ed) XanEdu Publishing.

Gorr, W and Kurland, K 2023, GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1 ESRI Press.

Van Maareseveen, M, Martinez J, and Flacke, J 2019, GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management: A Global Perspective, Taylor and Francis.