FI:PV047 Topics in GIS I - Course Information

PV047 Topics in GIS I

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2008

Extent and Intensity

0/2. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Timetable

Mon 16:00–17:50 B011

Prerequisites

Relational databases. Basic techniques used in GIS.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The goal of this course is to teach analytic and realization tasks of GIS projects in work teams.

Syllabus

Starting a project, defining roles in teams.
Basic specifications, strategic planes, geographical context and financial limits.
ta flow diagrams, conceptual data model, entities and relations, primary key of an entity.
Normalization of data model.
Process decomposition.
Transactions.
Function hierarchy.
Prototyping strategy in GISes.
Consolidation of data model, (spatial) attributes of entities, transactions in designed system.

Literature

Assessment methods

The teams are working on projects, the results of their work are presented continuously.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.