From March 4th-15th, we are hosting training sessions.
In order to attend a training session, tickets must be purchased in advance. To select the training session you wish to attend, please visit our Registration Page.
Additional information will be made available in the coming weeks.
List of Training Sessions:
POSTPONED: Best Practices for GIS Project Planning and Management: March 4th
Ticket Price: $350.00
This workshop cuts through the theory and fluff to present, in practical terms, the essential practices for successful GIS project planning and management. Its intent is to provide project managers, teams, and stakeholders with the key actions methods, and tools to launch and execute successful projects—delivering results on time and on budget providing valuable deliverables to the customers and user community.
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POSTPONED: Introduction to QGIS: March 7th
Ticket Price: $375.00
This 8 hour workshop is designed to introduce you to QGIS 3.x, an open source GIS software for viewing, editing, and managing spatial data in a wide variety of commonly used vector and raster formats. It is lightweight, flexible, and can be installed on Windows, MacOSX, and Linux. By the end of the course students should be able to install QGIS, display data, begin editing, and create a map.
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POSTPONED: Remote Sensing Applications in QGIS Workshops: March 7th
Ticket Price: $350.00
You will learn how to install/setup QGIS and associated plugins, enhance, interpret, and perform analysis on remotely sensed satellite datasets. I will walk you through each stage using step-by-step lectures and imagery. This course uses datasets based on real-life circumstances using Open-Source Quantum GIS software. You will gain an understanding of what a Geographic Information System is and how open-source GIS software can be leveraged to help solve real world issues. Students will learn how to download, Install, and configure QGIS, and the plugins required for remote sensing analysis using Microsoft Windows 11/10. Students will learn how to initiate a new GIS project using the datasets provided, enhance, and perform analysis using Sentinel 2 imagery of the abandoned Aldermac Mine site, located in the region of Abitibi–Témiscamingue, Quebec. The resulting map will be used to create a Layout and published to industry standard formats (e.g., Print, Image and Geo-PDF). Students will learn how to use the Orfeo Toolbox Supervised Classification machine learning algorithms to detect vegetation changes in and around the Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, Athabasca oilsands, using Sentinel 2. Students will learn how to perform a Terrain Analysis of Mt. St. Helens, creating a Digital Surface Model and displaying it as a high-resolution 3D scene. Students will learn how to analyze LiDAR data to create a 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10m Sea Level Rise Map of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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POSTPONED: Introduction to Spatial Data & Using R as a GIS: March 9th
Ticket Price: $375.00
In this two part course we will explore how to use R to import, manage and process spatial data. We will also cover the process of making choropleth maps, as well as some basic spatial analysis. Finally, we will cover the use of loops to make multiple maps quickly and easily, one of the major benefits of using a scripting language to make maps, rather than traditional graphic point-and-click interface. No previous experience of coding is required, although participants would benefit from some experience of using spatial data (e.g. Google Maps).
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Geospatial Job Hunting Seminar: March 9th
Ticket Price: $125.00
Finding a job in geospatial technology can be difficult. Covid-19 is not making that any easier. That’s why GoGeomatics Canada is bringing back our popular Career Seminar to give job seekers the tools and techniques that will put them ahead in their job search.
This online "Zoom" half-day career seminar is designed to give new and seasoned geomatics professionals the tools they need to succeed in the job market. The seminar is particularly focused on those seeking work in GIS, cartography, remote sensing, programming, and other related geospatial fields.
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POSTPONED: Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS) for volumetric applications Workshop: March 10th
Ticket Price: $350.00
The use of drones, officially referred to as Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS), has been forecasted to play a key role in the digitalization and further optimization of a variety of industries that utilize geomatics principles in their operations and management. For example, the aggregates mining and waste landfill industries rely heavily on volumetric calculations to monitor their stockpiles of materials. Digital Elevation Models (DEM) derived from RPAS data allows for the rapid calculations of volumes of materials which allows for more optimized/effective monitoring of stockpiles. Regular RPAS data collections allow for the creation of reports that monitor how much material is available in stockyards, how much material is going to processing, and how much needs to be excavated from the mine or ordered in the landfill. DEMs can also be used for calculating the volume of surfaces which can help monitor the remaining airspace in landfills which can provide insights on how to extend its lifespan. This three (3) hour hands-on workshop is intended for personnel in the aggregates mining and waste landfill who have beginner to intermediate experience in geomatics. We will discuss requirements needed to operate RPAS, how to plan a RPAS data collection to achieve high accuracy, how to process the data to create DEMs, and conduct volumetric calculations.
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Intermediate QGIS: Functions, Forms, and Processing: March 14th & March 15th
Ticket Price: $500.00
This class is a deep dive into QGIS. It picks up where the introductory class stops and covers, expressions, functions, processing tools, models, and Editing.
Learn how to build expressions and incorporate functions to manipulate and edit data. Use processing tools to conduct analysis and convert data. The class covers how to use the processing tools to build a model to conduct custom analysis. We will also do a slightly deeper dive into editing and the use of forms and widgets to make editing less error prone. Time permitting we will also cover SQL and creating Map books.
In order to take this class you've taken the introductory QGIS class OR have used QGIS and are familiar with geopackages, styling data, editing data, and using a basic understanding of GIS principles.
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