GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Occupational Profiles of Graduates

Graduates who have completed the program successfully can have the opportunity to work in institutions, especially in municipal corporations which produce and process spatial data, in geographical information systems and in information technologies units, which have started to be founded in many corporations in Turkey both in public or private sectors. Graduates of this undergraduate program may work in the fields listed below:

<span 1.6em;"="" border-box;">Engineering applications

Electricity, water, and transmission networks

Telecommunication management networks

Vehicle tracking and security systems

Agricultural practices

Vegetation cover

Arable land

Sprinkler systems

Crop harvest estimation

Soil mapping

Environment applications

Erosion risk analysis

Water sources and pollution analysis

Climatology works

Flood areas risk analysis

Protection of naturel life

Geology applications

Mine, ore, and petroleum detection and inventory

Geological maps

Earthquake risk analysis

Forestry applications

Forest and wood inventory

Protection and maintaining forest areas analysis

Assessment and treatment systems of rapid forest fires

Archeology

Archeological excavations mapping and digging inventory

Inventory of historical protected areas

Detecting archeological areas by processing satellite and aerial photographs

Archeological measurements

Civil applications

Civic information systems in municipal corporations

Regional planning works

Land use maps

Substrate mapping and construction plans

Urban property inventory

Collective housing estate analysis

Proprietary inventory in directorate of land register

CBS (Geographic Information Systems) based e-government projects (UAVT- National Address Data Base, ADNKS- Address-based Population Registration System)

Landscape works

Urban transportation plans

Address management system

Health applications

Community health care analysis and maps

Newborn infant track

Communicable disease check and mapping

Security applications

Crime analysis and maps

Traffic accident analysis

Accident diversification maps

Defense industry

Management applications

Banking and job mapping

Advertising and marketing target audience analysis

Client mapping