FI:PA049 GIS II - Course Information

PA049 Geographical Information Systems II

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)
RNDr. Rudolf Richter, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Václav Matyáš, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: RNDr. Milan Drášil, CSc.

Timetable

Mon 18:00–19:50 B003

Prerequisites

The prerequisite for this course is: basic skills in the methodic of development and project management of general information system.

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

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Technology Security (programme FI, N-IN)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Graphics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (eng.) (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (eng.) (programme FI, N-AP)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (programme FI, N-AP)
• Theoretical Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-TV)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS) (2)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, N-IN)
• Image Processing (programme FI, N-AP)

Course objectives

The course is focused to analysis, design and development of geographic information systems (GIS), to modeling of corresponding business processes, functions and data. The course describes basic phases of GIS projects and processes of project management with an accent to differences between GIS and general information system. At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and explain phases of GIS projects; work with information on GIS project methods.

Syllabus

• The course includes these topics:
• - GIS – definitions, basic terms, related fields of knowledge, maps in Czech Republic
• - Phases of GIS projects
• - Data and data models in GIS
• - Common processes in GIS
• - Basic functions in GIS
• - Data management – methods and strategies
• - Data quality - quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC)
• - Data capturing and data update
• - Data migration
• - Analytical functions
• - Output from GIS – generation of thematic maps
• - GIS standardization - standards of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), EU directive INSPIRE, standards in Czech Republic

Literature

• Lecture slides, technical manuals of GIS systems

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written exam, oral exam.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2010, recent)
  
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