A Recommended GIS Training Schedule for a Resource Specialist A Recommended GIS Training Schedule for a GIS Specialist GIS related courses available through the BLM NTC, Phoenix, Arizona. This course includes both hands-on experience with equipment and the process to incorpoate collected data into a digital environment. Learn how to display, query, and manipulate data in a GIS for spatial analysis of resource management issues.
Review coordinate systems and datums.
Map symbology and marginal information. Types of remote sensing - aerial photography, satellite imagery. GPS post-processing using Trimble PathFinder Office software. Creating map coverages in a GIS using ArcView2.1 and Informix. Resource specialists, program leads, managers, employees beginning to use GPS or a desktop GIS for data display, query, manipulation, and analysis.