ArcGIS Server provides a complete server-based GIS system that supports the use of centrally managed spatial data for mapping and analysis. This course introduces ArcGIS Server and teaches how to install, configure, and use the product as administrators and consumers of GIS services. Students learn how to publish maps, globes, and geoprocessing models that are optimized for performance. Students also create out-of-the-box Web applications using Manager and learn how to use GIS services in both Web applications and ArcGIS Explorer.

ArcPad is ESRI's mobile GIS software that is used to capture, display, analyze, and edit geographic information in the field. This focused course provides an overview of ArcPad 7 and demonstrates some of its powerful capabilities. Students learn about the wide range of tools, symbols, and style sheets that come with ArcPad and how ArcPad is used to gather and edit data. The course emphasizes best practice principles and considerations for common field tasks.

This course provides the foundation for understanding what Hazard Mitigation is, what it can do, and how you can use it to better your community. Students learn the basic functions of GIS, the properties of GIS maps, why a GIS database is powerful, where geographic data is obtained and how it is made. Using FEMA’s HAZUS-MH software with GIS, students will be able to analyze potential losses from floods, hurricane winds and earthquakes. In HAZUS-MH, current scientific and engineering knowledge is coupled with the latest GIS technology to produce estimates of hazard-related damage before, or after, a disaster occurs. In course exercises, students work with ArcMap and HAZUS-MH to visualize geographic data, create maps, query databases, and solve simple geographic problems using a systematic approach.

Designed with input from law enforcement community, this course helps public safety staff learn the core GIS skills they need to support their organizations' missions using terminology, exercise scenarios, and data relevant to their daily work. Students learn how to use ArcGIS tools to perform basic GIS tasks such as accessing, displaying, querying, and editing geographic data. In course exercises, students label crime incidents based on the type of crime, produce a map to brief a strike team, create pin maps, and customize staff reports. The course concludes with a capstone exercise in which students independently apply what they have learned to work through one of several scenarios they consider most applicable to their jobs.

This course provides the foundation for understanding the need for GIS for Fire and EMS Operations.  The course covers how you can use GIS to better your community.  Students learn the basic functions of a GIS, the properties of GIS maps, and how to use GIS in their daily job.  It also covers where geographic data is obtained and how it is made. Using ESRI’s ArcMap, students will be able to analyze fire and EMS incidents and associated data.

In course exercises, students work with ArcMap to visualize geographic data, create maps, query databases, and solve simple geographic problems using a systematic approach.

In the geodatabase, geometric networks are used to model linear features, such as pipelines and electric transmission lines, and the point features they connect to, such as valves and junction boxes. This course teaches the fundamental concepts of geometric networks with a focus on utility examples. Students will learn the components of a geometric network and the workflow for creating one. In course exercises, students work with realistic utilities data to create and edit geometric networks and perform geometric network analysis. Additionally, students gain experience working with the ArcGIS Schematics extension, which is used to generate and visualize networks as schematic representations.

This course serves as a broad introduction to mapping sciences, with an emphasis on the theory and practice of cartography. The objective is to help students develop the faculty to think critically about cartographic processes and representations as well as develop their skills in creating maps. This course is designed to provide you with the fundamental principles of map compilation and design, independent of any computer mapping or GIS technology.

 This course provides the introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the key data models used in analysis and modeling. It will highlight the unique characteristics of GIS data structures and the storage of these in the computer. GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.

ArrGIS Desktop is ESRI's full-featured GIS software for visualizing, creating, managing, and analyzing geographic data. This course provides the foundation for becoming a successful ArcGIS Desktop user. Students learn fundamental GIS concepts and become familiar with the range of functionality available in the software. In course exercises, they work with ArcGIS Desktop and see how it provides a complete GIS software solution.

ArcGIS software offers many tools for visualizing, creating, managing, and analyzing geographic data. In this course, students extend their ArcGIS skills in the areas of cartography, data automation and editing, and geoprocessing and spatial analysis. Students work with advanced cartographic tools as they learn how to efficiently create effective maps. A major focus of the course is the geodatabase. Students learn database design considerations and techniques for creating, maintaining, and managing GIS data stored in a geodatabase. The ArcGIS geoprocessing tools for spatial analysis are also covered and, in a course project, students apply many of their newly acquired skills.