Course Details

Geographic Information Systems

Academic Year 2024/25

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.