Universities offering courses based on Open Source Geospatial Software

CANADA

• Carleton University, Ottawa
  • Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems (GRASS) by Scott Mitchell
• 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
• University of Toronto at Mississauga
  • Undergraduate courses on GI analysis and processing (GRASS and R, Vincent B. Robinson)
    Some thoughts about using Open Source Software in the Classroom

CZECH REPUBLIC

• Czech Technical University, Prague
  • Geoinformatics at the Department of Mapping and Cartography, Martin Landa
  • Image processing (GRASS)
  • Introduction into spatial data processing (PostGIS)
  • Free software GIS

FRANCE

• l'Ecole Centrale de Nantes: Ingenierie de l'Information Geographique (OrbisGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer, OpenLayers, GeoExt, MapFish, ...), Erwan Bocher
  
• Institut De Recherche Sciences et Techniques de la Ville: The Master course " Sciences and Engineering of Urban Environments"

GERMANY

ITALY

• Insubria University Sistemi Informativi Territoriali (QGIS, GRASS) - Damiano Preatoni (old?)
• Palermo University Sistemi Informativi Territoriali (QGIS, GRASS) - Andrea Scianna (old?)
• Politecnico di Milano - Campus Como
  • Laboratorion di Geomatica, Maria A. Brovelli:
    Cartografia Numerica,(GRASS, Openjump)
    Geographic Information Systems, (GRASS, Openjump, Mapserver, p.mapper)
    Internet GIS,(geonetwork)
• University of Trento, Paolo Zatelli
  • Cartografia Numerica e GIS (Digital Cartography and GIS) GRASS, Mapserver, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, QGIS

JAPAN

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

SPAIN

• Girona University Master in GIS (UNIGIS) inludes 5 core courses (gvSIG, Sextante, GRASS, QGIS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Openlayers, Mapserver, ILWIS)

SWITZERLAND

• HEIG-VD (University of Applied Sciences Vaud, Western Switzerland) Open web mapping (OrbisGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer, OpenLayers, GeoExt, MapFish, ...), Olivier Ertz.
• University of Zurich (CH), Geo 123.3 - Basics in Geoinformation, (OpenJUMP + OpenOffice + ImageJ

UK

• University of Nottingham, Centre for Geospatial Science

USA

• Arizona State University
  • School of Human Evolution and Social Change by Michael Barton
    Spatial Technologies in Anthropology
    Remote Sensing and Quaternary Environments
  • GeoDa Spatial statistics for economic development, Luc Ansellin
• Idaho State University
  • Geospatial Software Laboratory, Daniel Ames
    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
• North Carolina State University
  • Geospatial Modeling and Analysis (GRASS), Helena Mitasova
  • Advanced Geospatial Modeling (Python, GRASS, GDAL/OGR, libLAS, LAStools)
• Pennsylvania State University Geographic Information Analysis (GeoDA) more info
• 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)