GIS Technology at Professional School of Montemor –o- Velho

Introduction GIS is a system based on hardware, software, geographic data and computacional procedures, that it allows users to analyze, manage and represent the real world In GIS we can describe any element of our world in two ways: Attribute Information: What is it? Species: Oak Height: 15m Age: 75 Yrs Location Information: Where is it? 51°N, 112°W

Introduction GIS stores geographic data as layers With these layers and the relation between then, you can begin to ask question about areas and discover relationships among the features

Our GIS Course Professional School of Montemor, was pioneer in Portugal in the education of intermidate technicians with the creation in 1994 of the GIS course This course has three years of studies In these three years, our students learn subjects related to the topic of GIS, such as, cartography, databases, GPS, Spatial Analyst, and others

In this picture we can observe the curriculum of the course: Disciplines Annual Hours First YearSecund YearThird YearTotal Sociocultural Component Portuguese English Philosophy Scientific Component Mathematics Geography History Technique, Technological and Practical Component Planning and Territorial order Cartography and Photo- interpretation Computer science Computer Aided Drawing GIS Our GIS Course

In the third year of the course, students will have to develop a final project, called Professional Skill Project This project consists on the application of the knowledge acquired throughout the three years of the course When students finish their courses with a good final mark, they will be skilled for: – analysing and interpreting all the information to introduce in the GIS where it operates, having for bases the urban drawing, planning and territorial order

Our GIS Course – reading and analysing cartographic data and air- photography – integrating and validating geographic data, proceeding from different formats and source (example, GPS data) – organizing and making the management of databases – elaborating digital cartography After the course, students can go to University or start working in public or private institutions

Our GIS Course During these ten years of the course, some good projects have been developed by our students Last year, a student developed a final project to find a new golf course location in our Municipality Let’s go see some aspects of this project