Course Details
Information systems and digital cartography
Academic Year 2024/25
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
I. Information systems
1. Introduction. definition of information system (IS), basic concepts. Anthony's paradigm, IS history, IS types.
2. Theory of information, data, information, knowledge, evidence, wisdom. IS with territorial link, IS relation and GIS.
3. IS lifecycle, IS design methods (structured and object design), UML diagrams.
4. Security IS, motivation, basic concepts, methods, cryptographic algorithms, electronic signature, GDPR.
5. Transactional and analytical systems (OLTP, OLAP). Data warehouses and data markets. Issues of ITSM (Information Technology System Management).
6. Social aspects of IS. The notion of globalization, information and knowledge society.
7. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Application of IS in state administration. ISKN, e-Government (system of 4 basic registers), GeoInfoStrategie.
II. Digital Cartography and GIS
8. GIS Analytical Tools, the issue of creating a digital cartographic work.
9. Cartographic modeling in vector data model environments.
10. Cartographic modeling methods in raster data model environment.
11. Classification of spatial data.
12. Optimization tasks in GIS environment, network analysis and optimal localization tasks.