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Training Videos on CD
Get the training you need when you want it. Watch the video from start to finish as many times as you want or go directly to specific topics you need. Either way, we think you’ll like the animated lessons presented by real people — GIS/GPS trainers with years of classroom experience.
Courses Available
- Introduction to GPS Technology
- Integrating GPS and GIS
- GPS Mapping with ArcPad
- GPS Mapping with Trimble’s TerraSync & Pathfinder Office
- Adding Digital Photos to Your GIS
- Working with Coordinate Systems in GIS and GPS
What Comes With Each Course
- A CD with your training video viewable on your computer
- PDF document containing course notes and resources
- Approximately 3 hours of professional geospatial training
- Short, focused lessons followed by live-action demonstrations
- Conceptual AND hands-on training
Pricing
- Buy individual courses for $60 + shipping & handling
- Bundle & save: You pick any 3 courses for $150 + shipping & handling
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Introduction to GPS Technology
This course is designed as a general introduction to Global Positioning Systems (GPS). You’ll discover some basic GPS concepts including what equipment to use, how to choose the equipment, how to collect data, and some basic workflows.
Intended Audience
This course is designed for all levels
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Fundamentals of GPS
- Lesson 2: Differential GPS
- Lesson 3: Choosing & Configuring a GPS Unit
- Lesson 4: Collecting GIS-Ready Data
- Lesson 5: Exporting GPS Data
Skills Acquired
- Understand how differential GPS works and sources of correction
- Sources of error
- Proper configuration of GPS equipment
- Overview of GPS receivers including recreational vs. commercial, accuracy, functionality, cost, and durability
- Best practices for capturing GIS ready data including points, lines, and polygons
- Conversion between various GPS and GIS formats
- Incorporate GPS data collection into GIS workflows
- Planning for field data collection
- Transferring data from a GPS to desktop GIS system
View a 5-minute sample of this course
Cost: $60 + shipping & handling
Integrating GPS and GIS
This course focuses on getting GPS data into a GIS. It will cover what equipment to use, how the equipment dictates the workflows, pros and cons of each workflow, and how to incorporate GPS data collecting in your organization.
Intended Audience
This course is designed for all levels.
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Overview of GPS
- Lesson 2: Overview of GIS
- Lesson 3: Integrating GPS Tools into the Workflow
- Lesson 4: GPS/GIS Workflows
- Lesson 5: Integrating Recreational GPS Data Formats with GIS
Skills Acquired
- Recreational vs. Commercial receivers
- Differential GPS
- Database design and storage of GPS
- Equipment preparation and maintenance
- Identifying your needs in terms of accuracy, attributes, photos, and mapping software
- Post processing of your data
- ArcPad workflows
- Recreational receiver workflows
View a 5-minute sample of this class
Cost: $60 + shipping & handling
GPS Mapping with ArcPad 
This course focuses on the use of ESRI’s ArcPad product with GPS units. You will learn the basic functions of ArcPad and why it is used for field data collection along with how it is used with a GPS unit.
Intended Audience
This course is designed for all levels.
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Overview of ArcPad
- Lesson 2: Configuring ArcPad for GPS
- Lesson 3: Preparing Data for ArcPad
- Lesson 4: Using ArcPad in the Field
- Lesson 5: Integrating ArcPad Data with Your GIS
Skills Acquired
- When and why to use ArcPad
- Installing ArcPad on a GPS unit
- Overview of ArcPad toolbars and key tools
- ArcPad studio functionality
- Geodatabase use for field data collection
- ArcPad toolbars in ArcGIS
- Check in/Check out data process
- Using tools to collect new features & update existing feature geometry and attributes
- Add-ons for post-processing ArcPad data
View a 5-minute sample of this course
Cost: $60 + shipping & handling
GPS Mapping with Trimble’s TerraSync and Pathfinder Office
Trimble makes a very user-friendly GPS field application called TerraSync and its companion office program Pathfinder Office. This class will help new users get started with the software and walk them through the basic workflow of project design, GPS configuration, field data collection, and post-processing of the data.
Intended Audience
This course is designed for all levels.
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Overview of Trimble’s GPS Hardware & Software
- Lesson 2: Getting Started with Pathfinder Office
- Lesson 3: Configuring GPS Settings in TerraSync
- Lesson 4: Field Data Collection
- Part A: Collecting New Data
- Part B: Navigating to and Updating Existing Data
- Lesson 5: Post-processing Field Data
Skills Acquired
- Learn to use the field (TerraSync) and office (Pathfinder Office) software
- Installation and configuration
- Collecting new data in the field
- Updating existing data in the field
- Transferring data from GPS unit to PC
- Reviewing data in Pathfinder Office
- Exporting data to GIS and other formats
View a 5-minute sample of this course
Cost: $60 + shipping & handling
Adding Digital Photos to your GIS
Adding digital photos to yoru GIS is much easier with the help of GPS. This class will look at adding digital photos as attributes to GIS features and also adding georeferenced photos to GIS as layers. We’ll cover the equipment you need as well as the workflow of this type of project. You’ll also learn how to work with the photos inside ArcGIS and Google Earth.
Intended Audience
This course is designed for all levels.
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Digital Photos in GIS
- Lesson 2: Using GPS to Collect Photos
- Lesson 3: Equipment & Workflows
- Lesson 4: Photo-Linking Software
- Lesson 5: Working with Photos in GIS
Skills Acquired
- Attaching photos to features as attributes
- Georeferencing photos as layers
- Hardware and software to use for linking photos to GIS features
- Integrating digital cameras with your GPS
- Photo linking software
- Viewing and manipulating photos in ArcGIS and Google Earth
View a 5-minute sample of this course
Cost: $60 + shipping & handling
Working with Coordinate Systems in GIS and GPS
Always a challenge in GIS and doubly so when using GPS to collect GIS data, this class focuses on the importance of coordinate systems. What is a coordinate system? Why should I care? How do I work with them? What do I need to be aware of when using GPS? Why doesn’t my data line up and how can I fix it?
Intended Audience
This course is designed for all levels.
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Geographic Coordinate Systems
- Lesson 2: Projected Coordinate Systems
- Lesson 3: Coordinate Systems & GIS
- Lesson 4: Coordinate Systems & GPS
- Lesson 5: Problem-Solving Alignment Issues
Skills Acquired
- Learn about both geographic and projected coordinate systems and how they differ
- How various spatial data formats including shapefiles, CAD, & geodatabases store coordinate system information
- ArcGIS tools for working with coordinate systems
- Coordinate systems in Google Earth
- Differential GPS and coordinate systems
- Scenarios for identifying and fixing data alignment issues
View a 5-minute sample of this course
Cost: $60 + shipping & handling