ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Hourly volume
21h
Description
The teaching is carried out in the form of 3 sequences.
Sequence 1 : Preparing a naturalist expertise on GIS
At the end of the sequence, learners will be able to display and convert the main types of GIS data and plan a field survey with handheld GPS units.
Different types of data (vector / raster data), most common formats QGIS interface, use of Qgis
Symbology on discrete and continuous variables (on vector and raster)
Coordinate systems and conversion from one system to another
GPS data acquisition and map layout
-Layer creation and digitization
3 sessions of 3 hours
At the end of sequence 1, the students will have to carry out a mapping exercise (which will be used for the evaluation). The students in initial training will carry out this work in groups from the workshop-sites (estimated time of 3 hours of non-attendance). The alternating students will do it in the framework of their professional activity.
Sequence 2 : use and management of databases
Database design; interest, software...
database query, SQL language
Creation of tables, basic SQL queries
2 sessions of 3 hours
Sequence 3: Spatial data analysis
At the end of the sequence, learners will be able to perform simple queries and simple geoprocessing.
Calculation of QGIS fields, use of mathematical and geometrical functions, calculation of surfaces and lengths.
Spatial queries and Geoprocessing
Home ranges and habitat selection
2 sessions of 3 hours
Knowledge control
test |
coefficient |
Nb of hours |
Nb Sessions |
Organization (SDS or local) |
Written |
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Continuous control |
100 |
3+1 |
3 |
local |
TP |
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Oral |
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Targeted competencies
- Make the student autonomous in the use of GPS and GIS in order to master the whole chain from data collection to exploitation
Understand the organization of databases and queries to query databases
Train the student to use open source GIS (QuantumGIS) to use spatialized data, mapping.