Saint Louis University's post-baccalaureate certificate program in geographic information science (GIS) focuses on current issues, including environmental quality, climate change, the sustainability of natural and nonrenewable resources, and the impact of human activities on the environment. The GIS certificate is a 15-credit program that students can pursue on a full- or part-time basis, usually completing the certificate in less than two years. Courses cover the latest image processing techniques for optical, thermal, RADAR, LiDAR remote sensing. Students will also explore geospatial methods and principles of spatial analysis, database design, cartographic representation, machine learning, computer vision, management and data-mining with the integration of GIS, remote sensing and GPS. Theory and lectures are supplemented with hands-on projects involving risk assessment and mitigation, environmental modeling, resource exploration, sustainable development, natural resource management and transportation, subterranean mapping, and forest fire management.