Organization

CUAS - Cologne University of Applied Sciences,
Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT) in cooperation with the International Office of CUAS

Short Description

This course will be held from July 11 to July 15, 2011.
In this course you will get a profound insight into the basics and fundamentals of GIS. Furthermore you will extend your knowledge about GIS in general and especially in the field of water resources management.
The course content will be communicated by lectures, practical training and excursions with main focus on practical applications and hands-on exercises.
You will work with up-to-date GIS software and hardware, get professional assistance and receive comprehensive course materials. Additionally you will have the possibility to talk to GIS professionals during the excursions.

Course Objectives

The following topics will be covered:

• Principles of Geographic Information Systems
  
• GIS data structures & data sources
  
• Map projections, coordinate systems, scale
  
• Creating new geographic data - Geo-coding, digitizing & editing
  
• Analyzing geographic data - spatial analysis, geostatistics, 3D-analysis
  
• Cartographic presentation techniques - layout & design
  
• GIS for Watershed Management
  
• GIS for Urban Drainage
  
• GIS for Urban Water Supply
  
• Data Models
  
• Special GIS tools: linear referencing, network analyst
  
• Model integration

• be provided with basic GIS concepts
  
• understand the fundamentals of GIS tasks such as digitizing, thematic mapping, database management and spatial analysis
  
• get substantial hands-on experience and familiarization with GIS software
  
• develop an appreciation for how spatial data can be manipulated in a GIS to increase its utility
  get to know how to plan, organize and conduct own GIS projects
  
• get substantial understanding of the practical potential of information systems as tools of modern management procedures
  
• understand GIS applications in the field of watershed management, urban drainage and urban water supply
  
• get substantial hands-on experience and familiarization with GIS instruments commonly applied for water management
  
• understand underlying data models and business processes in the water sector

Company Visits / Excursions

Excursion 1: One of the Water Agencies of North Rhine-Westphalia (to be confirmed)
Excursion 2: STEB – Urban Drainage Company of the City Cologne (to be confirmed)

Contact Hrs/ ECTS

Each of the courses consists of 25 contact hours plus optional homework as well as course material. Upon successful completion of a course, students receive a certificate indicating the achieved ECTS credits. Depending on the workload of the given homework, it is possible to receive 2 or 3 ECTS. In addition each participant will receive a DWA-certificate.

Tuition Fee

€ 600
including course documentation and catering,
no accommodation included

Application

You may apply for this course until June 20, 2011. Please write an email to Georg Meier or the International Office contact listed on the right side of this page.

Lecturers

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jackson Roehrig (Water Resource System Analysis Group, ITT, CUAS)

MSc. Georg Meier (Water Resource System Analysis Group, ITT, CUAS)

Further Links

ITT - Institute for Technologies in the Tropics at Cologne University of Applied Sciences

WARSA - Water Resources System Analysis Group