PV019 Geographical Information Systems
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2021
- 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
- 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 13. 9. to Mon 6. 12. Mon 16:00–17:50 A319
- Prerequisites
- ! PA049 GIS and Public Administration
The prerequisities for this course are the basic skills in relational databases, sorting/searching techniques, base analysis (calculus), linear algebra 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
- Image Processing and Analysis (programme FI, N-VIZ)
- Applied Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
- Information Technology Security (eng.) (programme FI, N-IN)
- Information Technology Security (programme FI, N-IN)
- Bioinformatics and systems biology (programme FI, N-UIZD)
- Bioinformatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Bioinformatics (programme FI, N-AP)
- Computer Games Development (programme FI, N-VIZ_A)
- Computer Graphics and Visualisation (programme FI, N-VIZ_A)
- Computer Networks and Communications (programme FI, N-PSKB_A)
- Cybersecurity Management (programme FI, N-RSSS_A)
- Formal analysis of computer systems (programme FI, N-TEI)
- Graphic design (programme FI, N-VIZ)
- Graphic Design (programme FI, N-VIZ_A)
- Hardware Systems (programme FI, N-PSKB_A)
- Hardware systems (programme FI, N-PSKB)
- Image Processing and Analysis (programme FI, N-VIZ_A)
- Information security (programme FI, N-PSKB)
- Information Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-EB)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-FY)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GE)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-GK)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-CH)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-IO)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-MA)
- Informatics with another discipline (programme FI, B-TV)
- Informatics (eng.) (programme FI, D-IN4)
- Informatics (programme FI, B-INF) (2)
- Informatics (programme FI, D-IN4)
- Public Administration Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Informatics in education (programme FI, B-IVV) (2)
- Information Security (programme FI, N-PSKB_A)
- Quantum and Other Nonclassical Computational Models (programme FI, N-TEI)
- Mathematical Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, B-IN)
- Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
- Computer graphics and visualisation (programme FI, N-VIZ)
- Computer Graphics and Image Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
- Computer Graphics (programme FI, N-IN)
- Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, B-IN)
- Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, N-IN)
- Computer Networks and Communications (programme FI, N-PSKB)
- Computer Systems and Technologies (eng.) (programme FI, D-IN4)
- Computer Systems and Technologies (programme FI, D-IN4)
- Computer Systems and Data Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
- Computer Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
- Principles of programming languages (programme FI, N-TEI)
- Programming and development (programme FI, B-PVA)
- Embedded Systems (eng.) (programme FI, N-IN)
- Programmable Technical Structures (programme FI, B-IN)
- Embedded Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
- Cybersecurity management (programme FI, N-RSSS)
- Services development management (programme FI, N-RSSS)
- Software Systems Development Management (programme FI, N-RSSS)
- Services Development Management (programme FI, N-RSSS_A)
- Service Science, Management and Engineering (eng.) (programme FI, N-AP)
- Service Science, Management and Engineering (programme FI, N-AP)
- Social Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Software Systems Development Management (programme FI, N-RSSS_A)
- Software Systems (programme FI, N-PSKB_A)
- Software systems (programme FI, N-PSKB)
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence (programme FI, N-UIZD)
- Theoretical Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
- Teacher of Informatics and IT administrator (programme FI, N-UCI)
- Informatics for secondary school teachers (programme FI, N-UCI) (2)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS) (2)
- Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, B-IN)
- Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, N-IN)
- Computer Games Development (programme FI, N-VIZ)
- Processing and analysis of large-scale data (programme FI, N-UIZD)
- Image Processing (programme FI, N-AP)
- Natural language processing (programme FI, N-UIZD)
- 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.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, the student will be familiar with the basics of information technology used in GIS, standards of WEB services and the computational geometry tasks in this area.
- Syllabus
- 1. GEOINFORMATION SYSTEM, PLACE ON THE GROUND SURFACE.
- 1.1. Definition of the term GIS
- 1.2. Place on the earth's surface
- 1.3. Where am I? A brief look at history
- 1.4. Development of navigation tools
- 1.5. Geodesy
- 2. CARTOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS AND MAPS
- 2.1. Basic projection types
- 2.2. The most used coordinate systems in the Czech Republic
- 2.3. Transformation between coordinate systems
- 2.4. Traditional maps and concepts related to GIS
- 2.5. Maps in the Czech Republic
- 3. DATASTORES OF GEOINFORMATION SYSTEMS
- 3.1. Spatial data types
- 3.2. GIS datastores architecture
- 3.3. Raster data datastores
- 3.4. Vector data datastores
- 3.5. Displaying geometry on a computer display
- 3.6. Web services and their standards
- 3.6.1. OGC - Web Map Service (WMS)
- 3.6.2. OGC - Web Map Tile Service (WMTS)
- 3.6.3. OGC Web Feature Service (WFS)
- 4. EFFICIENT ACCESS TO SPATIAL DATA
- 4.1. Find the object (and BE fast !!!)
- 4.2. Formalization of the search task
- 4.3. GRID method
- 4.4. Modification of binary trees for spatial search, kD trees
- 4.5. Quad Tree - Quadrant trees
- 4.6. R-trees
- 5. FUNCTIONS AND OPERATIONS OVER GEOMETRIC OBJECTS
- 5.1. Conversion functions (OGC)
- 5.2. Measuring functions
- 5.3. Position functions
- 5.4. Geometric operators
- 6. Raster DATA IN GIS
- 6.1. Quantitative characteristics of the image
- 6.2. Image operations
- 6.3. Raster data transformation
- 7. TOPOLOGy IN GIS
- 8. 3D GEOMETRY IN GIS
- 8.1. 3D Geometric primitives
- 8.2. Estimation of the normal of a set of 3D points
- 8.3. 3D polygon
- 8.4. Clouds of points
- 8.5. Cloud illumination according to normal
- 8.6. Eigenvalues and vectors of the covariance matrix
- 8.7. Surface variation
- 8.8. Automatic tracing of lines in a point cloud
- 8.9. Triangulation
- 9. ANNEXES
- 9.1. Method for solving nonlinear equations, Newton – Raphson
- 9.2. Least squares method - linear regression
- 9.3. Brief repetitorium of linear algebra
- 9.3.1. Vector space
- 9.3.2. Linear combination of vectors
- 9.3.3. Base of vector space
- 9.3.4. Scalar product, unitary space
- 9.3.5. Schwarz-Cauchy Lemma
- 9.3.6. Vector norm
- 9.3.7. Norm induced by scalar product
- 9.3.8. Metrics
- 9.3.9. Standard-induced metrics
- 9.3.10. Measurements in unitary space
- 9.3.11. Operator
- 9.3.12. Projection operators
- 9.3.13. Orthogonal projection
- 9.3.14. Central projection
- 9.3.15. Eigenvectors and eigenvalues of an operator
- 9.3.16. Hermitian operators
- 9.3.17. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of Hermitian operators
- 9.3.18. Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
- Literature
- Technical manuals of GIS systems
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Assessment methods
- The course is finished by "face to face" exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2021, recent)
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