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