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