Continuing Education
GIS for Emergency Management and Resilience Planning Course Heading link
The GIS for Emergency Management and Resilience Planning is a 6-week online course wherein students discover how GIS, geographic information systems, are used for:
- Gathering and analyzing intelligence
- Protecting critical infrastructure
- Responding to complex emergencies
- Preparing for disease outbreaks and bioterrorism
- Securing complex events
- Simulating disasters
The major educational objectives of this course are to:
- Promote a critical understanding of the techniques associated with GIS in many application areas found in Emergency Management and Resilience Planning
- Develop an appreciation for the issues and limitations related to the use of GIS
This course relies on ArcGIS, a widely used software tool for mapping and spatial reasoning. Assignments and a project – all tailored to include spatial data familiar to emergency management professionals – will be used to:
- Illustrate problems and solutions
- Stimulate discussions
- Integrate GIS design principles into the many applications found in Emergency Management and Resilience Planning
Note: This course requires basic understanding of emergency management principals.