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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Environmental Informatics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0313/07
Abbreviation EnvInf
Course title Environmental Informatics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator Doc. PaedDr. Vladimír Homola, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:

The sources of environmental data and their formats.
The issue of data collection, standardization and formalization of geoscientific data.
Methods of presentation of data: numeric, text, semigraphic, and graphics.
Environmental data and methods for modeling in a computer environment.
Relationship between geographic and environmental data.
Analysis of environmental data with regard to their use in information systems.
Basic geostatistical calculations and the results link to environmental data.
Estimation of three-dimensional data with respect to the presentation in information systems.
The issue of map coordinate systems in environmental tasks.
Other selected topics in computer science for application in practical, innovative information.


Practices:

Hardware implementation of information systems.
Classification of computer systems.
Characteristics of hardware: CPU, peripherals. Special terminals.
Modeling data information structures in the environment of a given database system.
The basic functions of database systems.
Definition of database, adding data and keep them up to date.
Links between databases. Index tables.
Creating virtual data and information structures.
Using virtual data structures, searching data and selecting information.
Application databases in information systems.
Import and export data.
Verification of the type of statistical distribution.
Basic statistical analysis.
Analysis of the dependency variables, correlation and regression analysis.
Analysis of vector data.
Multivariate statistical analysis of data.
Structural geostatistical analysis.
Analysis of anisotropy.
Geostatistical global estimates.
Computer kriging.
Presentation of the results of data analysis, particularly with regard to output and graphic formats available on the Internet.

Literature

There is no mandatory literature in English.

Advised literature

Barnett, V.: Environmental Statistics: Methods and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, London, 2003.

Piegorsch, W. W. - Bailer, A. J.: Analyzing Environmental Data. John Wiley & Sons, London, 2005.