Course Details

Geographical Information Systems

Academic Year 2025/26

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