Course Details
Information systems and digital cartography
Academic Year 2025/26
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.