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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Spatial Information Systems

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 222-0257/01
Abbreviation PIS
Course title Spatial Information Systems
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Urban Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Martin Ferko, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Information technologies, basic concepts, past and present, space
2. Determination of the position in space.
3. Time. Different concepts of time. Positioning in time.
4. GeoFeatures. Folder description of spatial objects.
5. Data Models. Data modeling. Data structures.
6. Raster data model. Vector data model.
7. Geodata acquisition, primary and derived geo-data, data quality, metadata
8. Global navigation satellite systems, digital elevation models, mobile geoinformation technologies
9. GIS in urban engineering
10. Territorial Plans
11 to 12 Applications and analytical processes
13 to 14 publishing and data presentation

Literature

Huisman, Otto, and Rolf A de By. ITC educational textbook series,. 4th ed. Vol. 1, Principles of geographic information systems: an introductory textbook. Enschede: The International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), 2009. Accessed February 18, 2016. http://itc.nl/library/papers_2009/general/principlesgis.pdf.

Advised literature

Huisman, Otto, and Rolf A de By. ITC educational textbook series,. 4th ed. Vol. 1, Principles of geographic information systems: an introductory textbook. Enschede: The International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), 2009. Accessed February 18, 2016. http://itc.nl/library/papers_2009/general/principlesgis.pdf.