WHAT IS GIS?
HOW CAN IT BE USED?
WHO SHOULD STUDY GIS?
OUR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE
OUR GIS LAB
OUR GIS COURSES
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WHAT IS GIS?
GIS is Geographic Information Systems. What is that? It is a powerful, new computerized analytical tool using fully interelational data bases with fully automated cartography (map making). GIS uses the tremendous power of both to help you analyse problems, opportunities, and solutions. You can apply GIS to any academic field, job situation, and inquiry you can imagine.
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HOW DO YOU USE GIS?
GIS solves problems:
- Where do types of animals, people, plants, etc. exist?
- Where can I find people who speak various languages?
- Where do problems occur?
- Where is my competition?
- Where are my customers?
- How would this plan look?
What if??????
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WHO SHOULD USE GIS?
There is no job, no profession, no career, no academic field which cannot very profitably apply GIS!
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CYPRESS COLLEGE GIS LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PREMISE
With the advent of sophisticated, user-friendly ArcView GIS, it has become possible to work the GIS curriculum downward into the freshman and sophomore level. This enables serious training and development of technical skills in all disciplines, which will then permit universities the opportunity to enhance their junior, senior, and graduate training and education in applications of GIS, again, in all disciplines. Bringing GIS to the freshman and sophomore level allows greater opportunity for mainstreaming GIS universally into the curriculum.
GIS IS A TRULY INTER-DISCIPLINARY, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TECHNOLOGY! WHERE PEOPLE FROM:CAN WORK TOGETHER, SIMULANEOUSLY LEARNING THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY!!!
- Vocational Education
- Technical Education
- Enhancing Career - Returning to Work
We believe GIS should not be a single-subject certificate program, unless a school wishes to concentrate in a specialty.
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CYPRESS COLLEGE GIS ADVISORY BOARD
NON-COMMUNITY COLLEGE MEMBERS FROM BUSINESS/INDUSTRY/GOVERNMENT/EDUCATION:
We are very proud of the high professional standards and capabilities of our Advisory Committee. We deeply appreciate their continuous sharing of expertise, wisdom, contacts, and current knowledge in the growing field of Geographic Information Systems.
- Shirley Hsiao, GIS Director for the Orange County Transportation Authority
- William Gyck, Center for Demographic Research, CSUF
- Doug Dancs, Engineer, City of Seal Beach
- Richard Hylslop, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Cal Poly, Pomona
- Ken Bane, Associate Planner, City of Fullerton
- Terry Bills, Director of GIS, Southern California Association of Governments
- Joan Clemons, Ph.D., Director of Community Collge Programs, UCLA
- Thomas Cripps, County of Orange
- Frank Gossett, Ph.D., Department of Geography, CSU, Long Beach
- James Grumman, GIS Services Director, Woodward-Clyde
- Rod Hay, Ph.D., Department of Geography, CSU, Long Beach
- Seyoung Kim, Ph.D., President Kim & Grady Research Corporation
- Christopher Lee, Ph.D., Department of Geography, CSU, DH
- David Lepo, Director of Communications Development, City of Los Angeles
- William J. Lloyd, Ph.D., Department of Geography, CSU
- Eric Phillips, GIS Analyst, CH2M Hill
- Ann Johnson, Community College Cooridinator, ESRI
- Robert Johnson, R.M. Johnson Company
- Dax Wilson, Engineering Cartographer, AirShow, Inc.
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GIS SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING LAB
- 300 Mz INTEL PENTIUM (13)
- 128 Mb SDRAM
- 8 Mb GRAPHICS
- 6.2 Gb EIDE HDD
- 1 Gb JAZ DRIVE
- 1.44 Mb FDD
- 17" MONITORS
- 1 HP 4000N LASER PRINTER
- 1 EPSON 3000 COLOR PRINTER
- 1 SANYO 750 LUMENS XVGA PROJECTOR
See the class overview of Geography 230 for lab hours.
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CYPRESS COLLEGE GIS COURSES
GEOGRAPHY 230 - INTRODUCTION TO GIS
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