The course ICT and GIS Applied to Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change offers you the opportunity to enter a field of growing importance and increasing demand for skilled workers. With climate change and natural disasters on the rise, there is a need for experts capable of interpreting and managing geospatial data in order to anticipate and mitigate risks. Through this course, you will acquire key skills in the use of technological tools such as QGIS and WMS and WFS geoservices, which are essential for the collection and analysis of geolocated data. You will learn how to create hazard, vulnerability and risk maps, enabling you to make informed and strategic decisions. This online course will allow you to progress at your own pace, combining theory and virtual practice, so that you can apply your new knowledge in the real world. Upon completing this course, you will be ready to work in a booming sector, where your skills will be highly rated.
ICT and GIS Applied to Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change
Risk and Disaster Management and Prevention
40 hours
Introduction
Objectives
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Understanding the basic concepts in IT, GIS, GPS and telecommunications.
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Learning how to collect data geolocated in databases efficiently.
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Use QGIS and WMS and WFS geoservices to spatial analysis.
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Create maps thematic and layers of cartography and a GIS-based census.
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Analyse hazard, vulnerability and risk maps using GIS tools.
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Applying GIS techniques to the management of disaster risk.
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Optimising the use of databases geospatial for decision-making.
Table of Contents
TEACHING UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION. COMPUTER SCIENCE, GIS, GPS, DATABASES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
An introduction to computing and technological advances
Database, data storage, database administration
GIS, GPS, Coordinate Systems
Using Google Earth Pro to locate coordinates and maps
GPS Essentials: collecting data from an Android phone’s GPS
TEACHING UNIT 2. BASIC TOOLS FOR COLLECTING GEO-LOCATED DATA INTO A DATABASE
Creating a data collection form: recommendations for designing the storage structure
Using Kobotoolbox
Using Typeform
Using GISCLOUD
Using the Fulcrum App
TEACHING UNIT 3. USING QGIS DESKTOP TOOLS AND WMS AND WFS GEOSERVICES
Basic QGIS Tools (I)
Basic QGIS Tools (II)
What are WMS or WFS geoservices?
Creating WMS or WFS services with GeoServer (I)
Creating WMS or WFS services with GeoServer (II)
TEACHING UNIT 4. CREATING MAPS AND LAYERS: CARTOGRAPHY, LAND REGISTRY, CENSUS, AND GIS ANALYSIS TO PRODUCE THREAT, VULNERABILITY AND RISK MAPS
The Relationship between the Land Registry, Censuses and Cartography and Risk Management
Creation of land-use and critical infrastructure maps
GIS analysis using QGIS and a demonstration using ArcGIS Desktop
Susceptibility maps, hazard maps, vulnerability maps and risk maps. Their differences, types of maps and methodologies for their production
Climate models and climate forecasting
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