WILDLABS and Fauna & Flora invite you to a free, asynchronous, and four-part e-learning series that will build your confidence using GIS within conservation work. The courses are beginner-friendly and will have you working from fundamental theory up to using spatial analysis and geoprocessing in real-world scenarios.

This is Course 4: Becoming Confident in Spatial Analysis and Geoprocessing, the final e-learning course in the series.

This course introduces spatial analysis and geoprocessing, and gives you the opportunity to practice using these skills in real-world conservation scenarios. The course can be followed in either QGIS or ArcGIS Pro and it is designed for those already familiar with this software but new to spatial analysis and geoprocessing. If you are new to GIS, check out Course 1! 

Course 4 will cover:

• Defining spatial analysis and geoprocessing and understanding their role in GIS
• Undertaking a spatial analysis process
• Learning how to do useful GIS operations, including:
  • Adding data from Excel to a GIS desktop software
  • Running definition queries and selection tools
  • Editing data layers
  • Projecting data and calculating geometry
  • Exporting selected features as a shapefile and as a table
  • Using geoprocessing tools (merge, union, buffer, dissolve, clip, erase)