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ZENTRUM FÜR GEOINFORMATIK SALZBURG

CENTRE FOR GEOINFORMATICS SALZBURG

Geospatial Awareness, Skills and Knowledge -

Managing our Future

Josef StroblCentre for Geoinformatics

Salzburg UniversityAustria



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"Learning is the new form of labor....Learning is at the heart of productive activity.”

Shoshana Zuboff,

'In The Age Of The Smart Machine'



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Themes

Thinking Spatially No SDI without Education Awareness vs Skills vs Education eLearning / Online Learning Distance Education From Teaching

… to Learning



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Education – the Critical Element

NOT: GIS software

NOT: Data availability

NOT: GIS functionality BUT:

AwarenessSkillsEducation



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Education Pyramid

KnowledgeKnowledge

SkillsSkills

AwarenessAwareness

GIS ‚Doers‘GIS ‚Doers‘

GI UsersGI Users

GISc Experts GISc Experts



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Geospatial Awareness

Spatial Orientation Landmarks Sense of Place

Close and Far Spatial Relationships

N/S/E/W GPS/GNSS Map Reading

Orientation Effective Distance

ooLeft / Right Perspective View

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CGIS-NUR

Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Centreof the National University of Rwanda

MapAfrica 2007

MapAfrica 2007© 2007 CGIS-NUR9

CGIS-NUR and CGIS-NUR DemoCentre


CGIS-NUR Mission

The CGIS-NUR promotes a spatially literate society by serving as a recognized multi-disciplinary training and research centre of excellence in GIS and RS technologies and applications through which it addresses issues of local, national and regional importance such as societal and economic transformation and sustainable development.

© 2007 ESRI Geoinformatik GmbH

Introducing GIS to Secondary Education in Rwanda

Martina Forster

GIS and Remote Sensing CentreNational University of Rwanda


Snowball dispersion model

Start with 10 schools 2 - 3 teachers per school Teacher training in summer 2007 Start teaching with GIS in Jan 2008

Participating schools will each recruit 3 new schools Pilot teachers will teach teachers at new schools Most schools will be involved within 5 years


Selection of Pilot Schools

Public, private, religious schools

Technical/vocational vs. scientific schools

Criteria Electricity Availability of

computers Teachers using IT French and English

instruction Enthusiasm


Teacher Training in 2007

3 days in June GIS concepts Mapping and Query Edit spatial data Digitizing

2 days in August GPS data collection School lessons

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Skills - Training

Software Training Data Acquisition

Digitizing GPS Mapping Cartography

Quality Control

Data Delivery Systems Operation

Surveying Formatting

Documentation



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Short Courses offered

Introduction to GIS Introduction to Remote Sensing SDI (SDI-Suite / Portal Toolkit) Geodatabase / ArcSDE Mobile GIS / GPS / DGPS GIS Publishing Threat to Biodiversity Soil Erosion mapping Urban and regional

planning management Land use/cover change analysis

The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER)Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER)

Map Africa 2007, South Africa 29-30 October 2007



Satellite communications help warn people who are at risk, especially in remote areas

They help connect a disaster zone to the outside world

Images from earth observing satellites help assess the damage caused by disasters like earthquakes, volcano eruptions, oil spills and floods.

Global navigation satellite systems enable us to obtain positional information on events that have to be mapped

Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management …Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management …



UN SPIDER - Outreach Activities in 2007UN SPIDER - Outreach Activities in 2007

• Support participants from developing countries to attend relevant

workshops and conferences.

• Organise international and regional workshops/expert meetings:

- Bonn, Germany - October 2007

- Bangkok, Thailand – November 2007

- Shenzhen, China – December 2007

- Khartoum, Sudan – December 2007

- Salzburg, Austria – February 2008

•Check out the UNOOSA website for upcoming activities and get involved

http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/unspider/index.html



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GIScience Education

Thinking Spatially Spatial Concepts SOA

Application DesignApplication Design SDI Conceptual Modeling Metadata

Location Based Services Database Design

_Spatial Statistics Catalog Services Indexing

Hypotheses Testing Process Modeling

SpatialAnalysis Interpolation Segmentation



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Second Life



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„Body of Knowledge“



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UNIGIS Distance Learning

MSc or PG Certificate in „Geographical Information Science and Systems“

Global Network of Universities collaborating in postgraduate / professional GIS Distance Learning

„Educating GIS Professionals Worldwide“

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UNIGIS Modular Learning

7/9 Modules plus Electives Final Project / Thesis 1 yr – PG Certificate 2 yr – MSc Cegree

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Learning

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The GI Success Diamond

ApplicationDemand

GI Edu GI Science

GI Technologies



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“The only sustainable competitive

advantage, is the ability to learn and

apply the right stuff faster”

Wayne Hodgkins

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Documents

gis introduction

gis functionality

gis software

disaster management

cgisnur democentre slide

gis concepts mapping

smart machine slide

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