Professional Certificates
Gain hands-on experience and invaluable insights to stay ahead in the dynamic geospatial landscape.
The University of San Francisco Geospatial Analysis Lab and BayGeo’s GIS Education Center, a geospatial non-profit organization in the San Francisco Bay Area, have designed a geospatial certificate program to offer a skill-based curriculum that addresses the industry's latest technologies.
Create Your Future From Here
Whether you're an experienced professional seeking to enhance your GIS expertise or an enthusiastic beginner eager to explore the field, each certificate is tailored to meet your needs.
BayGeo's ArcGIS Online Fundamentals
Learn to navigate Esri's ArcGIS Online ecosystem: Data Collection, Display, Exploration, Analysis, and Communication with Dashboards and StoryMaps.
BayGeo's R for GIS
Earn a certificate in R programming with a focus on geospatial data analysis. GAin practical skills in using R, a free and open-source statistical package increasingly used by geospatial practitioners.
BayGeo's R for GIS - Part 2
Dive deeper into complex geospatial challenges, enhancing your proficiency with R, the versatile and open-source statistical package relied upon by geospatial professionals.
BayGeo's Intro to Python for GIS
Use Python to build custom tools and perform complex analysis in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications.
BayGeo's Intro to ArcGIS Pro
Learn the basics of Esri's industry-standard ArcGIS Pro. Whether you are at square one or have previous experience, we welcome all learners with an interest in geospatial software.
BayGeo's Remote Sensing
Learn to use intermediate tools and workflows in ArcGIS Pro. Develop a basic understanding of remote sensing properties as well as technologies and analysis capabilities.
BayGeo's Introduction to QGIS
Analyze data and discover your inner cartographer by creating maps to communicate your results.
BayGeo's Intermediate QGIS
Go beyond the basics of the powerful, free, open-source QGIS software and perform powerful analysis, including spatial interpolation, time series analysis, model building, geocoding, and georeferencing.
BayGeo's Web Mapping With JavaScript
Acquire, create, and process geospatial data and then publish data as interactive maps using open-source Javascript tools.
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