The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a key tool in effective management of a municipality in its various aspects, from the traffic management and transport, water management, land management, road safety, management of equipment and people, etc.
This course aims to provide the future technician competences in the use of Geographic Information Systems mainly the ArcGIS software once it is the most widely used GIS software. The entire structure of a municipality may be associated, visualized and managed to a Geographic Information System. Students should be able to model reality in order to transform common data into GIS data aiming to help taking the right decisions from a global perspective of the municipality.
The course unit proposes to introduce basic concepts of algorithm, programming and databases in Python Language. Native Python integration in ArcGis will allow to automate a lot of the tasks of handling large amounts of data.