PV019 Geographical Information Systems
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Milan Drášil, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Vlastislav Dohnal, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: RNDr. Milan Drášil, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics - Timetable
- Mon 16:00–17:50 G101
- Prerequisites
- The prerequisities for this course are: basic skills in relational databases, sorting/searching techniques, base analysis (calculus) course and the knowledges of analytical geometry (a secondary school level).
- 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
- there are 40 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course is focused to core technologies used for a GIS servers, as well as for GIS client applications development. The course is practically oriented, techniques are illustrated by examples.
- Syllabus
- Coordinate systems, cartographic projections and transformation methods.
- Traditional maps, GIS data sources.
- Spatial data types, hierarchy and spatial relations.
- Data stores for spatial data.
- An effective spatial searching, the problem definition, the static and the dynamic problem variant.
- Traditional approach to space indexing, Grid - method and its RDBMS implementation, Quad-tree for points.
- kD-trees, how to index a space and balancing possibilities.
- Non-pointer Quad-tree, spatial query decomposition.
- SB+ trees and spatial interaction queries.
- R-trees, node splitting heuristics in linear and quadratic complexity.
- Manipulation operations over geometric objects.
- Validation functions over geometric objects.
- Set operations over geometric objects.
- Raster data and its sources.
- Quantitative properties of raster data.
- Linear filtration ant its application in GIS.
- Geometric transformations of raster maps.
- Vector and raster mutual conversions.
- Literature
- Technical manuals of GIS systems
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Assessment methods
- The course is finished by written exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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