Course Details
Geographical Information Systems
Academic Year 2024/25
NEA053 course is part of 2 study plans
NPC-ARS / ARA Winter Semester 2nd year
NPC-ARS / ARP Winter Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction, definition, interdisciplinary relationships, geographic object, homeomorphism
2. Information systems: types, methods of design, information systems in public administration
3. Database systems: relational algebra, SQL language, spatial indexes, spatial queries, data mining (cluster analysis, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms)
4. Topology (mathematical, pragmatic - Standard DIGEST)
5. Data models in GIS (vector, raster, matrix)
6. Sources of data in GIS, web mapping services
7. SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure for), the INSPIRE Directive
8. Digital elevation model (raster, vector, TIN)
9. Input data, metadata, data accuracy and quality - standards
10. Map algebra: a model, operators, functions, typical tasks
11. Spatial analysis: history, purpose, types (measurement and classification functions, overlay function in the neighborhood, connecting function)
12. Current trends and developments of GIS
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
I. working in Geomedia Intergraph, fundamental tasks.
1. creating of projekct
2. import raster data
3. import vector data
4. import of coordinates
II. working in ArcGIS, fundamental tasks.
5. deal with project
6. deal with project
7. deal with project
8. watershead analysis
9. Image classification
10. distance analysis
11. distance analysis - finishing
12. working with database tables
13. final project