548-0078/01 – Geoinformatics (GINF)
Gurantor department | Department of Geoinformatics | Credits | 7 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Rapant, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Rapant, CSc. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2007/2008 | Year of cancellation | 2010/2011 |
Intended for the faculties | 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
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Tutorials
Summary
Real world. Views of real world. Real world cognition. Informatics,
geoinformatics, geoinformation technologies, mobile geoinformation
technologies. History, present state and the future of geoinformatics. Data,
information, knowledge. Metadata. Spatial data, geodata. Space. Positioning in
space. Time. Positioning in time. Feature. Components of feature description.
Spatial modeling of the real world. Geodata gathering. Geoinformation
technologies: GIS, RS, GPS, DTM, MGIT, geoweb, lidar.
Compulsory literature:
1. Huxhold, W. E.: An Introduction to Urban Geographic Information Systems.
Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1991. 337 str.
2. Bernhardsen, T.: Geographic Information Systems. Viak IT and Norwegian
Mapping Authority. Arandal, 1992. 318 str.
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Programs (homework)
Lessons (perform tasks)
Written exams
E-learning
Other requirements
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Real World. Views for the real world. Discovering the real world. Informatics,
geoinformatics, geoinformation technology, mobile geo-information technology.
History, present and future of geoinformatics. The data, information, knowledge.
Metadata. Spatial data, geo-data. Space. Different concepts of space. Positioning in space. Time. Positioning in time. Feature. The components to describe spatial objects. Spatial modeling the real world. Gathering geodata. Geoinformation technologies: GIS, remote sensing, GPS, DMR, MGIT, GEOWEB, LIDAR.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction