“Creation of a standard soil data center” - course 15,000 rubles. from MSU, training 4 weeks. (1 month), Date: November 28, 2023.

Program volume (academic hours): 72 hours (24 classroom hours)

Form of study: full-time, distance learning

Dates of classes: as groups are recruited (small groups, from 5 people)

Admission requirements: higher professional education or secondary specialized education

Program Manager: Oleg Modestovich Golozubov, Email: [email protected], tel.8(495)939-55-87

Responsible for additional education: Timofeeva Elena Aleksandrovna, Email: [email protected], tel. 8 (903) 22-33-99-2, 8(495)939-22-33 

If necessary, the program can be adapted to the customer’s requirements - expanded, removed, or the necessary topics added to the curriculum of the additional education program

Who will benefit from this course?
This course is aimed at a wide audience of students who are interested in creating databases, containing attribute and cartographic information about the soil cover and environmental conditions of formation soil Acquiring skills in database administration, setting up web applications and using GIS in conjunction with a DBMS opens up great opportunities for course participants in solving scientific and practical problems related to issues of rational environmental management, land management and environmental monitoring.

What will you learn?
Course participants will receive the necessary knowledge to deploy a typical data center based on a local network and/or a virtual machine, and will be able to independently organize technological cycles and information processing infrastructure, create a Data Model (object model, semantic model, etc.) for a regional (or departmental) soil data center (PDC). The theoretical foundations of the course will help develop basic standards for data entry forms - standard xls sheets, shape files, xml forms, as well as create custom projects, enter soil data and use them for various applications tasks.

In what format are classes held?
A significant part of the course is related to practical exercises. The preliminary theoretical part is presented in lectures and discussed in seminars. The final certification is carried out in the form of a project defense.