Successful GIS Course concludes in UTN

In the Geomatics Laboratory of Universidad Técnica del Norte (UTN), the "GIS applied to Agriculture" Course was successfully developed. The course was aimed to students of Agricultural Engineering. The course’s main objective was to present the applications of Geographic Information Systems, Global Positioning Systems and Remote Sensing Systems to agriculture.

The contents covered during the course were:

1. Introduction to the application of GIS in Agriculture.

2. Georeferenced information and use of GPS.

3. Satellite images and aerial photographs

4. Access and database generation 

5. Geospatial information processing

6. Digital Elevation Models.

7. Contour intervals 

8. Terrain slope

9. Mapping soil nutrients (N, P, K)

10. Infrared image process for use in crop management.

11. Use of vegetation indices to characterize crop areas.

12. Management of climate, soil, and topography to analyze and predict crop yields

ArcGIS 10.2 (3D Analyst, Spatial Analyst, Image Analyst, Image Classification, and others) was the main software used during the course, as well as Map Source and ERDAS Imagine 2014. Over 30 students attended this course.