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GIS Methods and Remote Sensing in Geoturism

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 548-0127/01
Abbreviation GDG
Course title GIS Methods and Remote Sensing in Geoturism
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geoinformatics
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Pavel Švec, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to the study of geographic information systems and geoinformatics
2. Geographic information systems
3. Spatial data sources and spatial data processing
4. Introduction to cartography, cartographic methods
5. Maps in the Internet environment
6. Digital terrain models
7. Remote sensing - introduction, platforms and carrier in remote sensing
8. Remote sensing - remote sensing data processing, indexes, classification
9. Unmanned aerial vehicles - introduction
10. Unmanned aerial vehicles - legislation, data processing
11. Global positioning navigation systems - introduction
12. Global positioning navigation systems - GPS, measurement accuracy
13. Possibilities of using geoinformation technologies in geotourism

E-learning

Exercises and lectures are available via the LMS in the course of the same name.

Literature

BOLSTAD, P.: GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems, 4th edition, Eider Press, 2012.

Advised literature

KAPLAN, ELLIOTT, D.: Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications, Second Edition, Artech House Publishers; 2nd edition, 2005, p. 726.