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CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

This course is part of the Geographic Information Systems and Mapping for Public Safety and Homeland Security certificate programs. It may also be taken alone without pursuing a certificate.

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PDF BROCHURE

Please click here to download the PDF brochure for the GIS certificate program.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Computer Scientists and Engineers
• Geographers and Cartographers
• Planners and Environmental Scientists
• Application Specialists
• People interested in changing careers
• Law enforcement officers and administrators
• Crime analysts and coordinators
• Database and system administrators
• EMS & First response professionals
• Public Health Administrators

Matthew Bechdol, M.S.

Matthew Bechdol has a B.S. in Public Affairs and Environmental Science from Indiana University; a Certificate in Public Affairs from the Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden - The Netherlands; and a M.S. in Geographic and Cartographic Science from George Mason University. Mr. Bechdol is a Federal Account Manager at the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in Washington, D.C.. As an Account Manager for the US Department of Agriculture, he assists in the integration of software, hardware, data, and personnel to solve agricultural problems ranging from precision farming to global crop forecasting. Mr. Bechdol previously provided GIS and Remote Sensing support as a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center subcontractor, where he investigated Hyperspectral Imaging, GIS, and mobile/wireless geospatial field data and imagery classification technologies utilizing parallel processing systems.

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