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GIS FOR DITCH COMPANIES
When: Monday, November 17, 2008
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Room C205, Engineering Building
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
Cost: $100 for DARCA/CWC members;
$200 for non- members
Four ways to register:
1. Phone: (970) 412-1960
2. Mail check or credit card information to: 1630A 30th St., #431 Boulder, CO 80301
3. Fax credit card information to: (303) 516-1202
4. Through Google Checkout
This one-day course will provide you with a basic understanding of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for use with irrigation system management. We will use ESRI’s ArcGIS. Through a hands-on tutorial, the course will provide an overview of GIS and different GIS data types, followed by an introduction to ArcGIS and its various interfaces. You will also be guided through a lesson that uses real data that will likely have immediate utility to your ditch company. Through this workshop you will learn to download data from the Internet, display the data using ArcGIS, make an informative map, edit attributes, digitize your own lines and polygons, and measure distances and areas.
While this course is designed for beginners, and will demonstrate the basic steps needed to use this software, you should feel free to come even if you are experienced with ArcGIS, as you will be able to ask questions, get help and tips for using ArcGIS, and create your own data and map. Participants will create and take home a printed map and the digital files created during the day. The hands-on workshop guides you through each step, and you will work at your own computer station in the lab.
Nils Babel from Riverside Technology, inc. is the instructor for the course. Nils is a certified GIS professional with extensive experience using GIS to support irrigation and agriculture. He has been involved with the mapping of hundreds of ditch systems in Colorado and Wyoming. Headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, Riverside Technology, inc. (RTi) was founded in 1985 as an environmental impact/environmental assessment company. In addition to working with international organizations, RTi continues working with the Colorado Division of Water Resources and the Colorado Water Conservation Board on several projects related to irrigation and GIS.
Key opportunities to be presented during this course:
* Hands-on introduction to ArcGIS 9.2;
* Data collection and database construction for ditch companies;
* Data editing and usage for ditch companies;
* Map creation for ditch company office personnel.
Lunch and refreshments are included. Attendees each receive workshop handouts with all the materials used in the course. Attendees will also be able save all of the data used in the course on their personal USB jump-drive. Ditch company superintendents, board members, water commissioners, engineers and water professionals will benefit from the training.
Workstations will be provided in the computer lab, but if you are more comfortable with your own laptop please bring it. You must have ArcGIS 9.2 installed prior to the workshop.
Limit: 30 attendees.
The GIS for Ditch Companies workshop is sponsored by: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, P.C., The Department of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, and the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.
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