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Methodology of GIScience

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 548-0957/01
Abbreviation MEGIS
Course title Methodology of GIScience
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geoinformatics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jiří Horák, Dr.

Subject syllabus

Methodology of GIscience. Systematic approach to research in geoinformatics. Research design in geoinformatics and planning. Policy, comprehensibility. Research questions and hypothesis. Grant proposals. Scientific writing. Bibliography. Ethics. Experiments, modelling, simulations. Patents, industrial design. Mental maps. Statistical methods. Reviews, criticism. Scientific career.

Literature

Longley, P.A., Goodchild M.F., Maguire D.J., Rhind D.W.: Geographical Information Systems and Science. Wiley, 2011. 495 stran.
Gabrys, B.J., Langdale, J.A., 2012. How to succeed as a scientist: from postdoc to professor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK ; New York. 212 s. ISBN 978-0-521-76586-2
Greenfield, T., Greener, S. (Eds.), 2016. Research Methods for Postgraduates: Third Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118763025
Pruzan, P., 2016. Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27167-5

Advised literature

Thomas, C.G., 2021. Research Methodology and Scientific Writing. Springer Nature, S.l.
Betz, F., 2011. Managing science: methodology and organization of research, Innovation, technology, and knowledge management. Springer, New York.
Kosso, P., 2011. A summary of scientific method. Springer, Dordrecht; New York.
Dean, A., Voss, D., Draguljić, D., 2017. Design and Analysis of Experiments, Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52250-0