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Design of Geoinformation Technologies

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 548-0148/02
Abbreviation PGT
Course title Design of Geoinformation Technologies
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geoinformatics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jiří Horák, Dr.

Osnova předmětu

1. GIS and differences between project management in GIS and IS.
2. Current situation in development of IS, trends
3. Project management according to PMBOK. Decomposition of activities.
4. Information strategies. Strategic planning of GIS.
5. The ROI method – prepare for a ROI project, identify a business oportunities, their prioritization, construction of GIS, definition of project control.
6. The ROI method – specify and cost a GIS project, estimate benefits, create the benefite roadmap, calculate financial metrics, build and present a report.
7. Selection and implementation of GIS according to Corte, Tomlinson and Clarke.
8. Prototyping
9. Agile methods of development. Unified process.
10. Recommendation for the GIS development. Selection of SW for GIS. GIS maintenance. Outsourcing.
11. Financial aspects of GIS projects. Benefits of GIS/GIT, their assesment and enumeration
12. Costs of GIS and GIT, their assesment and enumeration. Mid-term project evaluation.
13. Geoinformation infrastructure, GeoInfoStrategy, INSPIRE, NSDI, Basic Registers and other relevant laws.

Povinná literatura

LONGLEY, P.A., GOODCHILD M.F., MAGUIRE D.J., RHIND D.W. Geographical Information Systems and Science. Wiley, 2015, 496 stran. ISBN 978-1-119-03130-7 
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Project Management Institute. 2013. 616 p. ISBN 978-1-935589-67-9. http://dinus.ac.id/repository/docs/ajar/PMBOKGuide_5th_Ed.pdf
MASSER I., CROMPVOETS J. Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures. ESRI press, 2014. ISBN 978-1589483835 .
MAGUIRE D., KOUYOUMJIAN V., SMITH R. The Business Benefits of GIS. An ROI Approach. ESRI press, 2008.

Doporučená literatura

Walter Ch.: Future Trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision. Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, 2020. 68 pages.
DIBIASE D., DEMERS M., JOHNSON A., KEMP K., LUCK A.T., PLEWE B., WENTZ E. (Eds.): Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge. UCGIS, publikováno Association of American Geographers, 1.vydání, 2006.
CAERS J. Modeling uncertainty in the Earth Sciences. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. ISBN 978-1-119-99263-9
HARMON A.: The design and implementation of GIS. Wiley 2003. ISBN 0-471-20488-9