Geography

Geography

Geographic Information Systems at the University of Canterbury

GIS at UCGeographic Information Systems (GIS) are software environments used to collect, manage, analyse and display geographic information. GIS are an
increasingly pervasive technology and are growing in their application and ubiquity in other software environments. You will find GIS skills learned at UC invaluable to your future career.

There are typically two key areas in the subject of GIS:

  1. GIS used as a tool in monitoring, modelling, analysing and managing physical and/or human environments
  2. GIS as a topic of study in itself, which involves extending the tool to do new things including the development of new spatial algorithms and bringing together novel technologies with GIS (e.g. the semantic web and GIS)

At Canterbury University we give you the skills to apply GIS as a tool
as well as the necessary theory that underpins GIS to ensure you use the
tool well and can extend it in new and interesting ways.

GIS @ UC

UC ESRI GIS Site License and GIS Data Holdings

Courses

Staff Involved

GIS users around campus

GIS Links

GIS Resources

GIS in Education

GIS Organisations

GIS Magazines

GIS Promotions

This page is maintained by John Thyne, email: john.thyne@canterbury.ac.nz

Last updated May 2010