Course Details

Geographic Information Systems

Academic Year 2024/25

MR001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction to GIS. 2. Possibilities of GIS in urban engineering - case studies. 3. Hardware and software for GIS. 4. Data formats. 5. Input data for GIS in urban engineering. 6. Data management, data models. 7. - 9. Data analysis. 10. - 11. Presentation of the results of analyzes, map creation. 12. Web GIS applications. 13. Mobile GIS.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction to GIS, the possibility of using GIS in urban engineering, available software and technology. 2. Semester project requirements. 3.- 4. Basic principles of GIS. 5. - 7. Data Management - data formats, data sources, data preprocessing for analysis. 8. - 11. Data analysis - basic analysis tools. 12. Presentation of results of analyzes - map creation. 13. Presenting the results of semester projects.