GPS & You III: Tracks & Routes (GPS Workshop)

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 III: Tracks & Routes - This course builds on GPS & You I to cover more sophisticated navigation and data collection. After a brief orientation to tracks and routes, nearly the entire workshop will be spent outside learning to collect tracks (including lines and areas) and to navigate along previously collected tracks (lines) and routes (a series of points).

General topics:
* GPS data collection * GPS navigation

Participants will learn to:
* collect GPS tracks * navigate GPS tracks and routes * upload GPS tracks and routes * download GPS tracks and routes

Software used:
* DNR Garmin * Google Earth * AccuGlobe

Workshop Registration

UNHCE Geospatial Technologies Training Center