GIS Training

STC has provided GIS training to over 4,000 individuals and created customized training for federal, state and local governmental organizations.

Public Health GIS Training Offering

GIS in Public Health Preparedness (3 or 4 day classes)
This instructor led class improves the knowledge of students who have basic GIS knowledge using the ESRI authorized class Introduction to ArcGIS I to specialized knowledge of GIS modules for public health preparedness. The GIS modules for public health preparedness and on-the-fly exercises allow students to go back to their office prepared to create maps. The GIS modules for public health preparedness are listed below:

• Quickly Making Public Health Data Spatial
• Address Geocoding Resources
• Emergency Resource Mapping
• Disease Outbreak Mapping

GIS in Public Health
Combining the ArcGIS I course with a third day of specialized public health content and taught by an experienced Public Health GIS specialist, this course covers fundamental GIS concepts as well as how to query a GIS database, manipulate tabular data, edit spatial and attribute data, and present data clearly and efficiently using maps and charts. The examples of public health topics/exercises covered are listed below:

• Core public health data: Working with zip codes; census data; GPS data, etc.
• Address Geocoding: Street data; address cleaning; standardization; intersections, etc.
• Epidemiological Assessment: Mapping and data preparation of temporal data for epidemiological events.
• Spatial Analysis: Overview covering allocation; density; raster data models.
• Proximity Analysis: Site Location; Pocket Of Need

Public Health Workshop (1 day classes)
This workshop gives public health specialists a grasp of GIS basics along with examples and exercises to help users focus on the issues and potential of GIS. This workshop is often combined with the ArcGIS I Course, which covers fundamental GIS concepts as well as how to query a GIS database, manipulate tabular data, edit spatial and attribute data, and present data clearly and efficiently using maps and charts.

ESRI Authorized Course Offerings

• ArcGIS overview: Capabilities and applications; Interacting with the interface; Basic Display
• Spatial data concepts: Representing spatial data and descriptive information
• ArcGIS data model: Geodatabases; Shapefiles; Coverages; Feature types; Attributes
• GIS software: Components; Functions; Applications
• Spatial coordinate systems and map projections: Georeferencing data; What map projects are; How ArcMap works with map projections
• Querying data: Selecting and identifying features; Creating reports and graphs
• Map displays: Creating; Symbolizing; Scaling; Adding map elements LINK

Introduction to ArcGIS II

• Spatial analysis and data management: Buffers; Spatial overlays; Extracting features for analysis; Analytical methods and tools
• Geocoding and display of locations from tabular data: Address geocoding; Display of points from x,y coordinates
• Editing Tools for creating and editing spatial data; Editing attribute data; Spatial adjustment
• Data automation: Data sources; Digitizing; Data conversion
• Project management: Database organization; File and directory naming conventions Creating and using metadata
• Geoprocessing: Introduction to the Command Line window and the ModelBuilder interface
• Cartography: Advanced symbology and labeling