University courses using OSGeo related material

This page is an inventory of courses at the university level that are using open source geospatial technologies. If you have a course to add, please add it to the appropriate country list. This page was initially created in November 2010.

Canada

• University of Toronto at Mississauga
  • Media:Robinson_TorontoGIS.pdf Comments on use of Open Source Software in courses with GRASS and R, Vincent B. Robinson
• Carleton University
  • GEOM 4008 – Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems
• Laval University, Quebec City, Prof. Thierry Badard
  • Development of GIS applications / Raelisation d'applications en SIG
  • Advanced publishing of spatial data on the Web / Publication (avancee) de donnees spatiales dans Internet
  • Frameworks for software development in GIS / Cadres de developpement logiciel en geomatique
  • Development of Web and mobile GIS applications / Programmation Web et mobile d'applications geomatiques

Germany

• HafenCity University Hamburg
  • GIS I/II courses, Uwe Dalluge, OpenJUMP + PostGIS
• University of Hohenheim
  • GIS-Herbology with OpenJump, Christoph Gutjahr, Martin Weiss, sample material

Italy

• Cagliari University
  • Cartografia Numerica e GIS (gvSIG), Giannina Sanna
• Insubria University
  • Sistemi Informativi Territoriali (QGIS, GRASS) - Damiano Preatoni
• Palermo University
  • Sistemi Informativi Territoriali (QGIS, GRASS) - Andrea Scianna
• Politecnico di Milano - Campus Como
  • Geographic Information Systems, (GRASS, Openjump, Mapserver, p.mapper), Maria A. Brovelli
• Trento University
  • Cartografia Numerica e GIS (Digital Cartography and GIS) GRASS, Mapserver, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, QGIS - Paolo Zatelli

Japan

• Osaka City University - Graduate School of Science
  • GRASS, Prof. Shinji Masumoto
• Osaka City University - Graduate School of Creative Cities
  • GRASS and FOSS4G WebGIS, Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan

Spain

• Girona University
  • Master in GIS (UNIGIS) courses (gvSIG, Sextante, GRASS, QGIS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Openlayers, Mapserver, ILWIS)

Switzerland

• University of Zurich (CH)
  • Geo 123.3 - Basics in Geoinformation, lecturers: diverse, OpenJUMP + OpenOffice + ImageJ

United States

• Arizona State University
  • Spatial Technologies in Anthropology, Michael Barton
  • Remote Sensing and Quaternary Environments, R Arrowsmith, R Aspinall, M Barton, & P Fall
  • GeoDa Spatial statistics for economic development, Luc Ansellin
• Idaho State University
  • Geol 5599 Web Mapping - OGC, MapServer, OpenLayers, Daniel P. Ames
  • ISU Geol 6628 Advanced GIS Programming - MapWindow GIS Components
  • ISU Geol 6648 Open Source GIS - QGIS, MapWindow, GRASS, GVSIG
• Michigan State University
  • GEO 825 - Geoprocessing
• North Carolina State University
  • Geospatial Modeling and Analysis (GRASS)
  • Advanced Geospatial Modeling (Python, GRASS, GDAL/OGR, libLAS, LAStools)
• Pennsylvania State University
• Open Web Mapping MS GIS elective Ian Turton
• University of California Davis
  • Introduction to GIS: QGIS, Richard Plant GRASS, R
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Intro to spatial technology - Charlie Schweik
• Utah State University
  • Geoprocessing with Python using Open Source GIS- Chris Garrard (Python, GDAL/OGR)

Helena Mitasova provided the initial content for this page.

See also

• Universities offering courses based on Open Source GIS (GFOSS)