Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are computer programs linking features commonly seen on maps (roads, town boundaries, and water bodies) with related information not usually presented on maps (type of road surface, population, type of agriculture, vegetation, or water quality). GIS allows individual observations to be spatially referenced to each other.
The Geographic Information Science certificate at UGA is designed to prepare undergraduates with the basic training necessary to enter the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Science.
The curriculum has three components: prerequisite courses in calculus, statistics, computer programming, and cartography; core courses in geographic information science, aerial photography, and cartographic visualization; and electives courses that permit exploration of more advanced GIS themes including but not limited to transportation modeling, digital image analysis, geospatial analysis, GIS programming, or an internship.