456-0311/01 – Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
| Gurantor department | Department of Computer Science | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Jan Gaura, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Jan Gaura, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Optional |
| Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2003/2004 | Year of cancellation | 2009/2010 |
| Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
After passing the course, student will be able to process spatial data and will be able to be familiar in basic tasks connected to the area of geographic information systems. The student will learn how to acquire, analyze, and present data. The student will know methods of spatial data analysis on current problems from areas of remote sensing, traffic, and government.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Project work
Terrain work
Summary
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) represent area that is widely used in many present applications. The aim of the course is to get familiar with methods of obtaining, processing, and analyzing data in GIS. Techniques of processing the most common types of spatial data, analytical tools and techniques of their analysis, and not least ways to visualize in GIS will be introduced. Raw data processing will be shown following their analysis, storing, and final visualization to the end user. The course will also handle techniques to visualize data on the Internet.
Compulsory literature:
Worboys, M., Duckham, M.: GIS: A Computing Perspective, CRC, 2004
Laurini, R., Thompson, D.: Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems, Academic Press
Samet, H.: Design and Analysis of Spatial Data Structures, Addison-Wesley, 1990
Burrough, P., McDonnell, R.: Principles of Geographical Information Systems, Oxford University Press, 1998
Recommended literature:
Lecture presentations available on course web site.
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Conditions for credit:
Project - 20 points; task in GIS GRASS (eventually in other GIS)
Report - GIS topic (chosen subject) - 25 points
E-learning
Other requirements
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
1. Basics of GIS, concepts and history of GIS, list of sciences about Earth.
2. Cartography, coordinate systems, transformations between coordinate systems, commonly used Czech and worldwide systems.
3. Representation of spatial data, spatial models.
4. Raster representation of spatial data.
5. Vector representation of spatial data.
6. Obtaining data, sources of geodetic data. Processing and application of primary and secondary spatial data.
7. Visualization of geographic data.
8. Spatial data representation in relational database (Spatial SQL).
9. Methods of remote sensing of Earth, presentation of active and passive systems.
10. Global positioning systems (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo), technical implementations, usage and applications.
Projects:
Task in GIS GRASS (eventually in other GIS). Transformation of chosen GRASS functions, data transformation process.
Labs:
1. Obtaining geographic data, transformation of obtained data.
2. Editing obtained data, creating maps based on obtained data with combination of other secondary geographic data.
3. Installation of the GIS GRASS, connection to demo data.
4. Working in the environment of the GIS GRASS.
5. Completing tasks with raster data.
6. Completing tasks with vector data.
7. Creating a new map using functions of the GIS GRASS.
8. Visualization of spatial data in the QGIS by connecting to the GIS GRASS.
9. Operating spatial data stored in a relational database (Spatial SQL).
10. Visualization of spatial data using web technologies. Creating simple application.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction