PV047 Topics in GIS I

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Milan Drášil, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Rudolf Richter, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Milan Drášil, CSc.
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 18:00–19:50 C416
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
Course objectives
The course is focused to team work of students in analysis, design and GIS application development. Teams of students follow the steps of the structured and/or object methodics. In each step, the roles (analyst, administrator of data sources, design expert) are assigned to team members. The results of each step are demonstrated in public. Part I of this course is focused to analysis of GIS application. The course is extended to comment methodical principles.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and explain metods of GIS projects; work with this information to realization of GIS project; create design of small GIS.
Syllabus
  • In the first part, Design and Analysis of GIS projects I, the course contains the following phases.
  • - Requirements collection, strategic plans of customer, environment of the company, geographic reflections, financial and time limits
  • - Process and data analysis - conceptual level, decomposition of processes, entities and relations, diagrams (DFD-diagram, ER-diagram, UML diagrams)
  • - Detailed analysis of the system, detailed entities and relations description including attributes, types and domains, functional analysis, cross reference of elementary functions and entities, life cycle of the instances of all entities
  • Output of first part of the course is document containing detail analysis of system.
Literature
  • Firemní materiály GIS/Technical manuals of GIS systems
Teaching methods
Lectures, group projects, presentation.
Assessment methods
Final group project: 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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022.
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