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Day 1

12th March 2018

Hours Title Lecturer
9:00 – 09:30 Opening and welcome speech CAIQ / AQISQ
9:30 – 10:00 Course presentation Qiu Songyin
9:30 – 10:00 GIS definitions and application in the veterinary contexts – the OIE perspective Nicola Ferrè,
Qiu Songyin
10:45 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 11:45 The Use of GIS in animal diseases response
 Stefano Marangon
11:45 – 13:00 Element of semiotics and application for some common veterinary thematic maps
 Nicola Ferrè
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Introducing Quantum GIS
Practical exercise:
  • QGIS preliminary operations and overview of QGIS interface
  • Display map data
  • Navigating Map
  • Looking at feature attribute
 Matteo Mazzucato,
IZSVe staff
15:30 – 16:30 Symbolising features
Practical exercise:
  • Changing Symbology
  • Symbolising by categorical attributes
  • Symbolising by quantity attributes
IZSVe staff
16:30 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:30 Labelling features
Practical exercise:
  • Using label to describe features
 IZSVe staff

Day 2

13th March 2018

Hours Title Lecturer
9:00 – 10:00 Importance of spatial information in disease reporting: WAHIS prospective Paolo Tizzani,
Matteo Morini
10:00 – 11:00 PPR: spread of the disease from “endemic” areas Paolo Tizzani,
Matteo Morini
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30 Spatial coverage of New Zealand dairy herds in an active surveillance programme by veterinarians for Mycloplasma bovis-like clinical disease Chris Compton
12:30 – 13:00 Zoning in China and the using of GIS in animal health epidemiology Zheng Zengren,
Wang Youming
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Work with spatial information Nicola Ferrè
15:30 – 16:30 Editing spatial information
Practical exercise:
  • Creating features
 IZSVe staff
16:30 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:30 Editing spatial information
Practical exercise:
  • Modifying features
 IZSVe staff

Day 3

14th March 2018

Hours Title Lecturer
9:00 – 10:00 GIS data models: how to georeference a farm? Nicola Ferrè
10:00 – 10:45 Editing a farm
Practical exercise 		IZSVe staff
10:45 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:15 The problem of spatial reference and scale Nicola Ferrè
12:15 – 13:00 Coordinating reference system and QGIS Matteo Mazzucato,
IZSVe staff
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 The GIS data (shape and Database) Nicola Ferrè
15:30 – 16:30 Database principle Matteo Mazzucato
16:30 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:30 Creating a personal database
Practical exercise:
  • Tables
  • Relationships
  • Input tests
 IZSVe staff

Day 4

15th March 2018

Hours Title Lecturer
9:00 – 10:00 GIS data independence principle Matteo Mazzucato
10:00 – 10:30 Querying and selection data Matteo Mazzucato
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 13:00 Querying and selection data
Practical exercise:
  • Identifying data
  • Finding data
  • Query by attribute
  • Selecting feature by attribute
 IZSVe staff
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 The use of GIS for spatial analysis Paolo Mulatti
15:30 – 16:00 Spatial operations
Practical exercise:
  • Buffers
  • Dissolve
  • Selection
  • Point-in-polygon
 Paolo Mulatti,
IZSVe staff
16:00 – 16:15 Break
15:30 – 16:00 Spatial operations (continued)
Practical exercise:
  • Buffers
  • Dissolve
  • Selection
  • Point-in-polygon
 Paolo Mulatti,
IZSVe staff

Day 5

16th March 2018

Hours Title Lecturer
9:00 – 09:45 Elements of GIS planning Nicola Ferrè
09:45 – 10:15 Presenting data Matteo Mazzucato
10:15 – 10:45 Break
10:15 – 11:15 Presenting data
Practical exercise:
  • Layout a map
  • Making maps for presentation
 Matteo Mazzucato,
IZSVe staff
11:45 – 12:15 HPAI: spatial dynamics, speed and spread analysis Paolo Tizzani
12:15 – 13:00 Wrap-up and general discussion
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch