GIS mapping is very important mapping system during epidemics and pandemic conditions. During COVID infection Dengue or Leptospirosis infections GIS mapping is very important for decisions making. Lot of doctors interested on learning how to use these mapping system to improve their quality during the Pandemic situations.

Our acknowledgement to Dr Sumal Nandasena (Consultant Community Physician) for providing videos for the benefit of the medical officers who are willing to use GIS mapping system in their MOH division

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1. Introduction of Mapping of Health issues
2 Basic concepts of Global Positional system
3 Importance and Challenges in GIS in Health
4 Data Models in GIS
5 Coordinate systems
6 Work with open source GIS system
7 Familiar with QGIS SYSTEM
This is a practical session on how to use above data in your area
8 1 Data visualization
8 2 Selection of Area of Map layer
Obtaining GPS locations
8 4 Plotting of GPS location
8 5 Understanding plugging’s of QGIS
8 6 Creating buffer zones
8 7 Creating Polygons using google earth
8 8 Dissolve several polygons and develop a new polygon
8 9 Clipping a vector layer by using a polygon
8 10 Create buffer zones in both sides
8 11 Merge an Excel table with an attributable table

Creating Buffer Zones in Google Earth Pro

10 Obtain GPS location from mobile phone
11 Mapping GPS locations