Introduction to GIS

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As one of the most important areas in geography, Geographic Information System (GIS) is widely used in various disciplines for storing, sharing, displaying, analyzing and managing geographically referenced information. The objectives of this class are to provide a firm conceptual and technical understanding of how to present, synthesize, process and analyze geographic data. This class will have both a lecture and a lab session and the lab is taught using ArcGIS 10.5.1 (ESRI, Inc.). This class serves as a pre-requisite for the class of GG 326 Advanced GIS. No prerequisites.