Course Details
Cartographical Informatics
Academic Year 2024/25
HE19 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
0. Introduction, basic terms
1. Applied geoinformatics
1.1 WMS services, datasets, registers, interoperability
1.2 Geodatabases, reference systems, georeferencing, colors
1.3 Spatial operations – introduction, cartographic modelling
1.4 Spatial operations – hydrological modelling
1.5 Spatial operations – surface analysis, network analysis
1.6 Spatial operations – topological overlay, predicting modeling, MCE
2. Metainformation (metadata)
2.1 Introduction, geolibraries, SDI, Dublin Core, ISO, CSDGM, ATOM, INSPIRE
2.2 GetCapabilities, metadata transitions, thesaurus and gazetteers, platforms
3. Web cartography
3.1. Web, editors, browsers, formats, standardization, GML, users
3.2 Web law, European law, licenses
Exercise
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. WMS services, cartometry, registers, information systems, portals
2. Raster downloads, georeferencing
3. Database to map
4. Basics for runoff model
5. Zonal statistics
6. Water erosion by USLE 2D
7. Spatial analysis – distance analysis
8. Visualization and animation
9. 3D visualization
10. Different data and maps synthesis