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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Geoinformation Technologies

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 548-0916/02
Abbreviation GIT
Course title Geoinformation Technologies
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geoinformatics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Rapant, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Real world. Views of real world. Cognition of the real world. Informatics, geoinformatics, GIT and MGIT. History, nowadays and future of geoinformatics. Data, information, knowledge. Metadata, spatial data, geodata. Space, positioning. Time, timing. Feature, components of feature description. Geodata gathering. GIT: GIS, RS, GNSS, DMT, MGIT, geoweb, lidar.

Literature

Clarke, K.C. (2003). Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River. 340. See Chapter 8, "How to Pick a GIS"
Longley, P.A., Goodchild M.F., Maguire D.J., Rhind D.W.: Geographical Information Systems and Science. Wiley, 2005
Maguire D., Kouyoumjian V., Smith R. (2008): The Business Benefits of GIS. An ROI Approach. ESRI press 2008.
Korte, G. B.: The GIS Book. The Fifth Edition. OnWord Press. Santa Fe, 2001.

Advised literature

Kaplan, Elliott, D.: Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications, Second Edition, Artech House Publishers; 2nd edition, 2005, pages 726, ISBN-10: 1580538940