PCC Geography

Environmental Analysis with GIS is now being offered online for Fall 2022!

Get your GIS certificate with fully online and hybrid classes at PCC!

Enrollment is now open! Share with your friends and others interested in sharpening their GIS skills!

Inportant recognition for Gladys West:

“In the early 60s, West took part in an award-winning study that proved “the regularity of Pluto’s motion relative to Neptune”, according to a 2018 press release by the US air force. In 1979, she received a commendation for her hard work from her departmental head. She then became project manager for the Seasat radar altimetry project; Seasat was the first satellite that could monitor the oceans. She oversaw a team of five people. She programmed an IBM 7030 Stretch computer, which was significantly faster than other machines at the time, to provide calculations for an accurate geodetic Earth model. This detailed mathematical model of the shape of the Earth was a building block for what would become the GPS orbit.”

Gladys West: the hidden figure who helped invent GPS Growing up on a farm in Virginia during segregation, West knew education would be her means of escape. But she didn’t know her quiet work on a naval base would change lives around the world

Do you want to expand your GIS skills? Are you considering a career in GIS? Sign up for our new course in Environmental Analysis with GIS. New for fall 2020! All online!