University of California, Davis
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization
University of California, Davis

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization

Map Your World With GIS. Explore the tools, concepts, and terminology of spatial analysis and modeling

Nick Santos
Eric Howard

Instructors: Nick Santos

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4.8

(5,893 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 months
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Create and work with raster data.

  • Develop and analyze data for the geospatial analysis project.

  • Develop a large processing workflow in ModelBuilder.

  • Interpret and explain the results you obtained in comparison to your original GIS question and/or hypothesis.

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