Part B GIS Field Skills

Description from DukeHub

This course provides hands-on training in geospatial data collection and associated mapping skills, partitioned into three 1-credit modules. The first module will cover ArcGIS Online (AGO) apps coupled with ArcGIS Pro to collect data using your own smartphone. The second module is focused on employing survey-grade Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS, e.g., GPS) instruments to collect high-resolution positional information of environmental parameters, including the use of real time kinematic correction techniques. The final module covers emerging tools in geospatial data collection, with a focus on unoccupied aircraft, and aerial and terrestrial LIDAR. Recommended prerequisite: Environment 559.

Skills

• data and statisticstitle: "gis"
• lab workhas a lab component
• fieldworktitle: "field skills"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• ✓Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "field skills"
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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