548-0058/07 – Geoinformation Technologies (GIT)
| Gurantor department | Department of Geoinformatics | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Rapant, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Rapant, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Optional |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2006/2007 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FAST, HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor, Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the subject is to teach students basics of geoinformatics and geoinformation technologies, use them to complete diffrenet tasks, to design adequit data models to portray real world.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
Basic overview of common concepts of geoinformation technologies like geodata, features, object view, field view and process view of real world, data models, data gathering, etc. Attanetions is gaved to individual technologies like GIS, remote sensing, global navigation satellite systems, digital terrain models, etc.
Compulsory literature:
Longley, P.A., Goodchild M.F., Maguire D.J., Rhind D.W.: Geographical Information Systems and Science. Wiley, 2005.
Bolstad, P.: GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems, 4th edition, Eider Press; 4th ed., 2012, ISBN-13: 978-0971764736.
Korte, G.: The GIS Book. OnWord Press; 5th ed., 2000, ISBN-13: 978-0766828209
El-Rabbany, E.: Introduction to GPS: The Global Positioning System. Artech House, Inc, 2002. 176 pages.
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Continuous control of solving tasks assigned to the exercise. Written exam.
E-learning
Other requirements
Only standard requirements.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
- Real World and its presentation. Earth Sciences.
- Geoinformatics and geoinformation technologies. Definition of basic concepts.
- History, Present and Future of Geoinformatics.
- Space. Different concepts of space.
- Positioning in space.
- Time. Different concepts of time. Positioning in time.
- Feature. The components to describe features.
- Data models. Data modeling. Data structures.
- Raster data model. The vector data model.
- Getting geodata. Primary geodata.
- Derived geodata. The quality of geodata. Metadata.
- Geographic Information Systems. Remote Sensing.
- Global navigation satellite systems. Digital terrain models.
- Digital photogrammetry. Mobile geoinformation technology.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction