Description:
Learn everything you ever wanted to know about how to use a handheld GPS receiver! These 3 hour workshops are designed to teach you about navigation and data collection with GPS receivers without taking up and entire day of the work week. These workshops are designed for people with no GPS experience, or basic GPS users who want to learn more about this ever more important technology. GPS & You I is the first of the series, and is required to take GPS & You II and III (you do not have to take II in order to take III). Courses will be offered throughout the year on evenings and Saturday mornings, providing flexibility not found in our other workshops. While instruction will be based on the provided handheld GPS units (Garmin GPS 76), we encourage participants to bring their own GPS units to the course.

GPS & You I: GPS Basics - This course covers the basics of GPS technology, how to collect waypoints and how to navigate to points you have collected. Introductory presentations will explain the technology behind GPS, but most of the workshop will be spent outside putting handheld GPS receivers through their paces.

General topics:
* basic GPS * GPS navigation * GPS data collection * geocaching

Participants will learn to:
* operate Garmin 76 GPS units * navigate using handheld GPS units * collect waypoints using handheld GPS units

Workshop Registration

UNHCE Geospatial Technologies Training Center