Course Details

Geographical Information Systems 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BEA020 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-GK Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Dalibor Bartoněk, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289965

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

Lectures (after weeks – 1 hour per week)

  • 1. Definition of GIS, history, development, interdisciplinary relationships.
  • 2. Information systems with spatial reference, application in state administration (ISKN, GeoInfoStrategie).
  • 3. Database with spatial reference, spatial SQL, spatial indices.
  • 4. Topology, DIGEST standard.
  • 5. Data models in GIS, raster, vector, matrix data, mobile GIS.
  • 6. Metadata, quolity description, typology of errors in GIS.
  • 7. Digital terrain model (basic information).
  • 8. Data Sources for GIS in the Czech Republic and abroad,
  • 9. GIS on-line, web mapping services, mobile GIS.
  • 10. Map algebra, model conception, type of variables and functions.
  • 11. Basic spatial analysis (overview).
  • 12. GIS in crisis management, applications.
  • 13. Overview and characteristics of current GIS, prospects of further development of GIS.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

Schedule of exercises

  • 1. ArcCatalog Graphic Environment, ArcMap Graphical Environment.
  • 2. Visualization, Labeling, Editing of Tables, Attribute Queries.
  • 3. Spacial queries, Buffer, Clip, ModelBuilder, Basic map, Map services.
  • 4. Raster data, Georeferencing, Transformation of coordinate system, Data export.
  • 5. Import, Export JTSK Coordinates, Import, Export WGS84 Coordinates, Editing and Creating of Vector Data.
  • 6. Filedatabase, ISKN Studio, OpenStreetMap (ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap), Data GIS Collection.
  • 7. ArcGIS Online, Collector, ArcReader, ArcGIS Explorer.
  • 8. Import, export of CAD data, QGIS.
  • 9. Creating of TIN, 3D Analyst Tools, ArcScene, Google Earth.
  • 10.–13. Final test.