Geographic Information Systems Certificate

What is GIS?

Geographic Information Systems (GIS for short) can be described as a database tool to store, organize, retrieve, and analyze geographical and resource data for decision making. Its used in many fields of industry including law enforcement, environmental management, business, defense and intelligence, education, government, transportation, public safely, health and agriculture to name a few.

What can you do with GIS?

Major companies such as Levi Strass & Co. and Lamar Advertising Company use GIS technology to determine everything from where to locate new retail stores to where to better locate client billboards to target various population densities.

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. GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework. A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.