Course Details

Cartography

Academic Year 2024/25

DEB060 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-GK Summer Semester 1st year

DPA-GK Summer Semester 1st year

DKC-GK Summer Semester 1st year

DPC-GK Summer Semester 1st year

The content of the subject is the application of methods of software solution for cartographic visualization and geovizualization. Geovizualization represents the current trend of graphical interpretation of spatial data and the student will become acquainted both with the basic rules of cartography and with current trends in geovizualization. Attention is also paid to geovizualization in the web environment, mobile phones, cartographic animation and virtual reality.

Credits

7 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Cartography and GIS at the level of bachelo´s and master´s degree

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Models of communication of cartographic information
  • 2. Cartographic visualization, geovisualisation and digital cartography
  • 3. Softwares for digital cartography
  • 4. Graphical and digital form of cadastral maps, digital format of cadastral maps
  • 5. The concept and specifics of digital maps
  • 6. Geovisualisation on the Internet and mobile phones
  • 7. Web cartography
  • 8. Digital sources of cartographic data in the Czech Republic
  • 9. Computer maps metadata
  • 10. Quantitative methods of cartography
  • 11. 3D visualization
  • 12. Dynamic maps
  • 13. Virtual reality in cartography