616-3035/01 – Information systems and technologies for the environment (ITŽP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Protection in Industry | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Jančík, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Jančík, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
- Student will be able to work with the concepts of data, information, metadata
- Students will know the structure of information systems
- Student will know the principles of operation of information systems
- Student will know the basic facts about geographic information systems
- Student will have an overview of information systems relating to the environment
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
The course aims to introduce students to information systems. First, the subject deals with the basic concepts used in the issue of information systems. Subsequently are presented commonly used information systems. Anaesthesia structure of information systems and principles of their functioning. Finally, the presented information systems that serve as a source of data on environmental issues.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
- control test
- activity in excersises
E-learning
http://katedry.fmmi.vsb.cz/616/soubory/Bitta_GIT.pdf
Other requirements
- activity in excersises
- credit test
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction, introduction to computer lab equipment, initial training.
2. Information technology, basic concepts used in information systems - data, information, metadata, information systems. Understand the difference between analog and digital data.
3. The history of computers, the structure of computers, hardware, software. Digital data representation - Units of digital information (bit, byte, ...), representation of numbers, characters, character encoding Czech, digital image representation.
4. Basic structure of information systems, data models, relational databases, SQL, SQL queries.
5. Geoinformation technologies, their use and history, GPS, remote sensing, GIS.
6. Representation of spatial data in GIS - vector and raster data, GIS analysis tools.
7. Mathematical models of spatial phenomena - explanations of concepts physical model, mathematical model, the advantages and disadvantages of mathematical models, the error mathematical models, linking mathematical models with GIS.
8. Analytic tools GIS 1 - Displaying spatial data, the benefits of presenting data and information using thematic maps. Selective operation. Geostatistics. Geometric data operations. Zoning and its properties. Overlay operations. Spatial data connection. Network analysis. Definitions network. Features networks. Dijkstra's algorithm. Network analysis tasks. Analytical tools GIS 3 - Operations with bitmaps. Local, focal, zonal and global analysis. Digital elevation models. TIN Model. Model Grid. Capacity calculations. Visibility analyzes. Hydrologic analysis.
9. Properties map. Map scale. Maps. Topographic maps. Technical maps. Thematic maps. Generalization map. Mapping elements. Principles of creating thematic maps compositions. Cartographic principles for creating maps. The most common errors in thematic maps and their removal.
10. Information systems in public administration - Public Administration Portal, CSO, etc.., Presentation of information systems and their capabilities.
11. Information systems for EIA and IPPC, presentation of information systems and their capabilities.
12. Air Quality Information Systems (ISKO) and integrated register of polluters (IPR), presentation of information systems and their capabilities.
13. Product and waste registers and information systems on waste, presentation of information systems and their capabilities.
14. Information Systems on the status and quality of water in watercourses and waterbodies presentation of information systems and their capabilities. Information Systems for the protection of nature, landscape and forest information systems and demonstrate their capabilities.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction