GIS Technology at Professional School of Montemor –o- Velho.

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IntroductionIntroduction• 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: OakHeight: 15mAge: 75 Yrs

Location Information: Where is it?

51°N, 112°W

IntroductionIntroduction

• 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 CourseOur 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:

DisciplinesDisciplines

Annual HoursAnnual Hours

First Year

Secund Year

Third Year

Total

SocioculturalComponent

Portuguese 100 100 100 300

English 100 100 100 300

Philosophy 100 100 100 300

ScientificComponent

Mathematics 100 100 100 300

Geography 120 120 120 360

History 80 80 80 240

Technique,Technological andPracticalComponent

Planning and Territorial order

120 160 160 440

Cartography and Photo- interpretation

80 80 80 240

Computer science

100 120 120 340

Computer Aided Drawing

140 - - 140

GIS 160 240 240 640



• 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


– 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


• 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

GIS Technology at Professional School of Montemor –o- Velho.

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