GIS training course in the College of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

Mamoru KOARAI

Presentation information

Oral

Symbol H (Human Geosciences) » H-TT Technology & Techniques

[H-TT32] Geographical Information Systems

Tue. May 26, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM 203 (2F)

Convener:*Takashi Oguchi(Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo), Yuji Murayama(Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences), Ryosuke Shibasaki(Center for Spatial Information Science, the University of Tokyo), Shin Yoshikawa(Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology), Chair:Shin Yoshikawa(Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology), Mamoru Koarai(Surving Department, College of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

[HTT32-05] GIS training course in the College of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

*Mamoru KOARAI¹ (1.College of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)

Keywords:GIS education, College of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, local government

The College of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is prepared 8 GIS training course for government workers and local government workers. The period of GIS training course is about one week.
GIS training courses are also prepared for the policy of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism such as management of facilities, disaster prevention and city planning. There is also "regional information communication" training course aiming at the citizen participation type polity using SNS and geospatial information. The College use ArcGIS or free GIS software QGIS as GIS engine in GIS training course.
The participation number of GIS training courses is small, but the degree of satisfaction is high by a questionnaire survey to a participation trainee. It is important for the increase of participation number that many local governments know existence of GIS training courses. Hearing survey is caring to know the spread situation of GIS in local governments. The outline of these survey results will be also reported by this presentation.