Location, location, location.
Position yourself at the intersection of geography, data analysis, and technology, where every point on the map tells a story waiting to be discovered. As a GIS Specialist, you’ll play a pivotal role in empowering agencies and governments, skillfully applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS), alongside innovative web mapping and data visualization technologies. Your work will directly support essential informational needs, optimize workflows, and refine business processes, making complex data not only accessible but actionable. A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system that captures, stores, analyzes, and displays many kinds of geographical or spatial data – information related to positions on the Earth’s surface.
GIS Applications Specialist is a growing field due to increasing informational needs of government and private agencies. As technology within this field continues to advance, yielding more and more valuable data, you will be a major asset to your team. A GIS Applications Specialist can significantly impact numerous economic sectors, pioneering the application of emerging technologies. Their expertise in remote sensing, GPS (Global Positioning Systems), internet mapping, and data visualization paves the way for innovative solutions across industries.
This post-graduate, intensive, three-semester GIS program utilizes current high-end technology tools to collect, store, manipulate, analyze, interpret and communicate geographic information within a variety of disciplines. You will become versed in several spatial computing technologies used in the industry today and have access to the latest in applicable computer hardware, software, and field technology. You will have considerable opportunities to practice your skills in a work-life setting by putting theory into practice.
Now... isn’t that spatial?
Program Highlights
- Pursue subsequent studies in GIS applications in various program areas
- Apply the knowledge and skills to develop simple-to-elaborate good practice applications with theory relating to Vector GIS technology
- Learn how to build web-based GIS applications to contribute to the world of Distributed Geographic Information
Did You Know?
- Canada is the second largest country in the world, covering almost 10 million km² with over 243 thousand kilometres of coastline1.
- The current market for GIS Applications Specialists in Newfoundland and Labrador includes various provincial and federal departments, crown corporations, municipalities, research agencies, post-secondary institutions and private corporations.
- Canada GIS has geomatics specialists who have worked in every province and territory on a wide range of geospatial projects.
- You can use GIS data to achieve a multi-layered result for many types of analysis and management pertaining to your project.
1. CanadianGIS.com (n.d)
OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of the GIS Applications Specialist (Post Diploma) program, graduates will be able to:
- Develop and apply skills for the effective presentation of geographic information.
- Perform data collection techniques for gathering geographic information from the field, existing maps, or spatial data.
- Apply fundamental principles of database processing regarding GIS environments, and develop skills in designing, implementing, and managing databases.
- Design and implement a GIS application that addresses predefined objectives.
- Demonstrate the building of web-based GIS applications.
- Design GIS applications based on the integration of programming languages, database management systems, and GIS software, to achieve the most efficient data access, manipulation, and presentation.
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must have graduated from a recognized college or university with a diploma and/or degree in a relevant program area. Related program areas include, but are not limited to forestry, natural resource sciences, engineering, environmental studies, geology, surveying, geography, business, municipal planning and law enforcement.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Program graduates are prepared to work in positions as diverse as GIS programmers/analysts, applications specialists/consultants, ecosystem IT managers, utilities managers, database managers, GIS systems operators, and land information managers.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
The program incorporates a Major Geographic Information Systems Project establishing industry-student linkages. Students will have considerable opportunities to practice their skills in a work-life setting by putting theory into practice.