Went to housing parks roads wildlife water jobs and shopping all have in common they’re all individual features a more natural and man-made landscapes understanding the nature these places and their connections are important to residents policymakers businesses and agencies geographic information systems or GIS combines technology data and people to help answer these questions related to our natural and man-made world to day’s yes is being implemented in hundreds of thousands of organizations and it’s helping them make better decisions run operations and make organizations better but at the same time it’s becoming a new language kinda medium snape are becoming pervasive cross organizations explaining
Now things are in the organization giving insight understand relationships patterns processes help helping us understand the future Shasta College has a geographic information systems program that is considered a career technical information program the college’s program requires students to work in a GIS project my name is Emily sad and this is my first semester taking GaAs course to Shasta college and I a chose to amp reading are in public places I’ve chosen mostly out door thing so that people could potentially go on the store not have to worry about business king open and they can just kind do when they fell like it this is %uh online version on my math it’s in RGS explore our online and I’ve any port is the layers that I maid or Arc map into RTS explore our online and anyone can view is so if you we’re looking at the legendary meaning that you wanted to kill see something in turtle bay you religious go to the green that’s for sure to obey and when you hover over it these and I am number their title and the hardest top up and then you can just click on 181 get for additional information they definitely think that it’s a really valuable tool and it makes me happy to see
that we’re using it more often to make better decision it’s really dynamic and its like endless possibilities from mapping good London Olympics to the Panama Canal widening of the Panama Canal a I think was special about GIS is that is so useful in so many different application so many different fields on it seem to be most commonly used in natural resources areas in the forestry things like that and so we were given the project mapping the trees here on campus and we had some are clients where physical plant which is the maintenance crew on campus we also had the master gardeners were very in treated in using the project for three identification purposes the play ID class itself same thing for identification purposes originally the project started with another image and the points were digitized manually and wherever there was a tree canopy appoint was set so that was the original three map back a few years ago one week took over the project what we did was we went and took the study are and went out inactivity ID them using a handheld a walk each three which Davis the precise location OK
But I know I’ve release my focus on a project what I thought was our main goal as far as use fullness was for physical plant they often have trouble with the oaks especially in the grassy areas of campus cuz they get too much water and a lot of them were actually from raw in the center you don’t necessarily realize it until all the sudden branches are falling off in causing major damage trying to symbolize all these different species of three was impossible and one layer so I divided them up into six different layers was in the GIS you can look at just the native tree or you can look at just the ornament tree or even look at that native deciduous independently have all the other Cornett courses are designed to rain student in the three basic element a GIS so three are three essential functions the GIS service on is data collection and management a second is analysis and a third is display and so data collection and management involves gathering data from existing sources collection new data through GPS and other methods and also the main tenancy a the data in accessing the data through geographic databases a second area is the analysis
Side and through analysis we’re able to combine geographic data and were able to extract information a our geographic data to answer what-if scenarios so we can look at things like what would be the impact are the benefits if we were to build the a road over if we’re going to at a park a real par tube build some industrial facility and it can be more simple than that as well it can be things as simple as somebody as wants to pull their parcel of land and find out what sort of adjacent land ownership for land use since there are in relation to where their properties the third display and display at its basic level is usually maps we all have seen maps they’re been around for thousand years but nowadays we have tremendous range of tools to be able to the graphical side of producing maps but we also have the ability now with computers and mobile devices to be able to have power interactive maps that have changeable scale to them the content of the scale changes as one move in we have the ability with mobile devices and GPS to be able to place ourselves on the maps
Shisha college is GIS curriculum provides technical education that aligns to the competency model developed by the US Department labor GIS courses are transferable the university programs and the students gain experience working with professionals on projects that benefit the community I think the best advice I can give is third fired if you are really interested in doing the JS certificate do all the classes together because at I fee like following the program as it’s laid out you’ll be able to learn the most and retain the most of the information I Vesta on started and 1988 San with started primarily asa GIS centric from com offering GIS consulting services home so it for um in terms that were working on my shots a community well-being outlets projects much is funded by on the organization’s Shasta County broking out suddam now you can use GIS forged community well-being means so something thresher gathering data finding information assembling at nom and then all the way to some of them taking the data that was gathered and making maps toward just inserted running and I also saw on that information I came
Into best route to they had some extra technician level work and so I worked mostly with a when the GIS analyst that they had here and mostly on your data capture I’m capturing zone general plan for am certain future land use planning projects that was my main thing I did as an intern that’s pretty impressive the program for the child’s college house and the the quality to among the student so we see coming out of there so far a relatively small community liked reading found compared to some other bigger cities I think they’ve done a wonderful job love on sir having a US footprint the horse safe and doing something senator very cutting edge and I’m great opportunities for student and the community to benefit from that money GIS is used in a wide variety of applications including community planning hazard mitigation in business development collaboration between Shasta college and local private and public sectors help the students by building skills through-world experience this combination up student projects that provide data and services in support
Regional initiatives and a curriculum based on national standards is the key to success in preparing students who want to go on to a four-years program or start in the college also encourages young children teenagers to learn technical skills by providing local schools with activities and a curriculum for grade K through 12 in the years a lead GIS and other geospatial technologies will play an increasingly prominent role in our economy and daily lives by making order at a bar complex world