Course Details
Geographic Information Systems
Academic Year 2023/24
NEB029 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIE Summer Semester 1st year
Theory of information. Land information systems. Modeling space relations. Vector and raster data. Digital terrain model. Databasese. Applications.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Understanding of principles of the cartographic interpretation and cartographic work as basic layer GIS. Basic skills with geograaphical information systems.
Knowledge
Students will manage basic theoretical knowledge of geoinformatics/geomatics and digital cartography. They will be introduced with positional and altitudinal bases of geographic information systems. They will achieve detailed knowledge about national digital map works, geoinformatic systéme, spatial databases and about data collection methods for these products.
Prerequisites
Basic knowlegde of information technology. Cartographic terminology.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
graded course-unit credit
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Graphical environment of ArcCatalog. ArcMap's graphical environment.
2. Visualization. Labeling. Editing tables. Select by atributes.
3. Select by location. Geoprocessing-Buffer, Clip. ModelBuilder.
4. Basic map. Map services.
5. Raster data. Georeferencing. Transformation of the coordinate system. Export data.
6. Import, export JTSK Coordinates. Import, export WGS84 Coordinates. Edit and create vector data.
7. Filedatabase. ISKN Studio. OpenStreetMap (ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap).
8. GIS Data Collection.
9. ArcGIS Online.
10. ESRI Collector. ArcReader. ArcGIS Explorer
11. Import, export CAD data. QGIS.
12. Creation of TIN. 3D Analyst Tools. ArcScene. Google Earth.
13. Credit test.