Course Details

Information systems and digital cartography

Academic Year 2025/26

DEB065 course is part of 4 study plans

DPC-GK Winter Semester 2nd year

DPA-GK Winter Semester 2nd year

DKC-GK Winter Semester 2nd year

DKA-GK Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

8 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

I. Information systems

  • 1. Introduction. definition of information system (IS), basic concepts. Anthony's paradigm, IS history, IS types.
  • 2. Theory of information, data, information, knowledge, evidence, wisdom. IS with territorial link, IS relation and GIS.
  • 3. IS lifecycle, IS design methods (structured and object design), UML diagrams.
  • 4. Security IS, motivation, basic concepts, methods, cryptographic algorithms, electronic signature, GDPR.
  • 5. Transactional and analytical systems (OLTP, OLAP). Data warehouses and data markets. Issues of ITSM (Information Technology System Management).
  • 6. Social aspects of IS. The notion of globalization, information and knowledge society.
  • 7. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Application of IS in state administration. ISKN, e-Government (system of 4 basic registers), GeoInfoStrategie.

II. Digital Cartography and GIS

  • 8. GIS Analytical Tools, the issue of creating a digital cartographic work.
  • 9. Cartographic modeling in vector data model environments.
  • 10. Cartographic modeling methods in raster data model environment.
  • 11. Classification of spatial data.
  • 12. Optimization tasks in GIS environment, network analysis and optimal localization tasks.