Course Details
Geographic Information Systems
Academic Year 2025/26
NNA008 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIK Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction into GIS problems.
- 2. Definitions and divisions of GIS.
- 3. Data GIS models, phases of formation, typology of GIS, GIS managing data structures.
- 4. Definition, collection and organisation of graphical data. Procedure within the formation of a GIS project.
- 5. Planning of geographical technologies.
- 6. Geographical analyses, spatial questions, questions on mapping objects and attribute tables.
- 7. Characteristics of programming products of firms Intergraph, Autodesk, Bentley, ESRI.
- 8. Usage of GIS within public authorities. Usage of GIS for certification of line constructions.
- 9. Introduction into problems of modelling over GIS platform.
- 10. Basic tasks – transport optimisation, goods delivery, optimal routes, region attendance, crisis management,
- 11. Expert systems and its usage within railway transport.
- 12. Application of GPS systems in transport etc.
- 13. New trends of GIS development. The connection of GIS and the Internet.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
The following exercises are practised teaching tasks:
- 1. Build a data model.
- 2. Build a data model, a solution of the given example.
- 3. Geographical analysis, spatial queries.
- 4. Questions about map features and attribute tables.
- 5. Querying in GIS, a solution of the given example.
- 6. 3-D modelling within the GIS.
- 7. Application of map algebra in GIS environment.
- 8. Map algebra, solving the given example.
- 9. Build models based on the network graph, shortest path analysis.
- 10. Network analysis in GIS, solving the given example.
- 11. Management of transport in GIS, solving the given example.
- 12. Sample data collection in mobile GIS.
- 13. Credit test.