Regional Training Workshop 3

Editing and managing spatial data

Location	Curaçao
Venue	Renaissance Hotel, Curacao
Duration	3 days (August 22-24th, 2011)
Target Group	Technical officers with responsibility for building and managing spatial data in support of hazard mapping, hazard monitoring, emergency response, contingency, and risk mitigation
Workshop facilitators	Eric Sussenbach: e.sussenbach@gis4c.com and Roy Huggins: r.huggins@gis4c.com
Objectives	Participants will be introduced to basic principles of building, managing and editing spatial data through the usage of advanced GIS software
Learning Outcome	To expose participants to the use of GIS systems To explore how to use GIS for building, managing and editing spatial data To provide participants with an appreciation of how to use GIS for hazard mapping
Content	Basic concepts on GIS data structure Building Geodatabases in ArcGIS Data manipulation and editing techniques Import/export of spatial data GIS Advanced Tools