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Home Courses Spatial Tools in Water Resources Management Course materials Lectures Introduction to GIS

Introduction to GIS

Course subject(s) 1. Introduction to GIS

1. Introduction to GIS

This first lecture will give you an introduction to GIS (Geographical Information System). The teacher, dr. Susan Steele-Dunne, will explain what GIS is and what you can do with it. She will then show you how to represent the real world in GIS by modelling space and showing datasets for water resource management, specifically used in the Netherlands. At the end of this lecture she will finish with an introduction on spatial analysis.

Introduction to GIS

SpatialTools_Lecture1.pdf Note: these lecture slides are slightly different than the slides on the recording, but covers the same topics overall.
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