Course Details

Geographic Information Systems

Academic Year 2025/26

BRA011 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-MI Winter Semester 4th year

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.