Up-to-date aspects concerning the implementing of the GIS technologies in the management of the agricultural territories in the Republic of Moldavia 

The subject of this paper is to present information about GIS education in the Republic of Moldova and discuss related problems. Among more then 40 Moldavian universities, only 3 answered the inquiry that they teach GIS or subjects with GIS contents. They are the State Agrarian University of Moldova, the Technical University of Moldova and the State University from Tiraspol. In all departments courses of GIS or with GIS content are a part of undergraduate study. The students in these courses are introduced to data acquisition, data storage and management as well as data analysis and visualization. GIS teaching at the postgraduate level is not organized. The most important problems in teaching GIS at Moldavian universities are: the lack of appropriate academic and scientific staff; the absence of GIS literature in the Romanian language; the acquisition costs for geodetic equipment (especially GPS receivers) and for some graphical and attribute data; the shortage of teaching time and lack of understanding methods of spatial analysis. There need to implement and to promote GIS and LIS teaching and training to other specialties and postgraduate study programs.

Keywords: agricultural, management, GIS technologies, Moldova, education