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Sunday, 16 November 2014 08:19

Internships

OSFAC runs a competitive internship program in GIS and remote sensing, which accepts a limited number of both academic and professional interns. Interns are accepted in a revolving fashion based on the availability of positions and are based at the OSFAC GIS/RS lab at the University of Kinshasa. The length of internships is determined individually by OSFAC depending on the intern’s proposed objectives. All OSFAC internships are unpaid.

Friday, 14 November 2014 09:30

Training modules & pricing tables

Introduction to GIS

$500

per 3 days

  • History of digital mapping and GIS
  • Main areas of application of GIS
  • What is geographic information? (?)
  • Basic concepts of GIS components, ... (?)
  • Data GIS: Reality Modeling in GIS (?)
  • Representation of a layer in a GIS ... (?)
  • Major databases of market data, ... (?)
  • ...

Introduction to ArcView

$750

per 5 days

  • Introduction to GIS (?)
  • Introduction to ArcView 3
  • Management of vector data
  • Extensions of Arcview 3
  • Presentation of information / Layout
  • Tabular data management
  • Creating and editing vector data
  • -

ArcGIS Level I

$800

per 5 days

  • Overview of GIS
  • Basics of ArcGIS
  • Applications ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ... (?)
  • Working with Spatial Data
  • Data Presentation / Layout
  • Projection vector features
  • Creation and updating of vector features
  • Work with tabular data (descriptive attributes)

Remote Sensing Level I

$1,250

per 5 days

  • Introduction to Remote Sensing
  • Active and passive remote sensing
  • ERDAS / ENVI Menu Toolbar
  • Opening and viewing an image
  • Import generic formats of images
  • Combination of bands
  • Colored composition
  • Make a mosaic
  • ...

Introduction to GPS

$200

per 2 days

  • Introduction to GPS
  • Operation
  • Field applications
  • GPS coordinates recovery
  • ...

 

Sunday, 16 November 2014 01:00

OSFAC-DMT Desktop

 OSFAC-DMT Desktop is a tool which allows you to make and manage requests for satellite images with OSFAC database interactively. In other words, it allows you to post a request for satellite images remotely (from your computer) and the request is automatically sent to the administrator of OSFAC's database via internet.

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