Geographic Information System - Lehigh Carbon Community College

Geographic Information System from Lehigh Carbon Community College is a Campus Certificate Geography degree that prepares you for a Science career. STARS is both the name of an industry standard Geospatial Certification and also the name of a series of courses that prepare the student to take the GIS certification test. STARS is the first and only competency based, industry recognized, entry-level, geospatial certification! The five STARS courses are mapped directly to the ?GWD? (Geospatial Workforce Development) model. The GWD is recognized by NASA, the U.S. Department of Labor and by industry leaders as the basis for determining the skill set needed to make the best possible geospatial employee. The courses delivered by following the STARS curriculum series are designed to both teach and assess a student's level of competence in the geospatial skill set required by the geospatial industry to become employed. The STARS certification is a series of courses that provides students with skills to be an entry level geospatial technician. The curriculum is based upon teaching all concepts and skills that would be necessary to enter the geospatial industry. The concepts course does discuss and educate students on basic concepts in Project Management, GIS, and Remote Sensing. It is in this course where students learn about history of mapping, projections, coordinate systems, scale, multispectral imagery, and various other concepts that are essential to being effective in GIS/RS. Other courses discuss the uses and applications of ArcGIS software and its extensions including: Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst, Network Analyst, and Leica's Image Analysis extension for ArcGIS. The capstone project is a guided project in one of three areas in Agriculture, Public Health and Safety, or Business and Marketing. This course demonstrates a student's application of the skills and concepts learned in previous courses (This project is submitted to the STARS Certification Committee on completion for review). Successful completion of this course c and the STARS Exam are essential components to receiving the certification. Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will be able to: obtain an industry standard Geospatial Certification work with ESRI software. be knowledgeable about spatial technology and remote sensing. View more details on Lehigh Carbon Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Geography courses.