Course Details

Geographic Information Systems

Academic Year 2025/26

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.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. RNDr. Aleš Ruda, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Basic knowlegde of information technology. Cartographic terminology.

Aims

Understanding of principles of the cartographic interpretation and cartographic work as basic layer GIS. Basic skills with geograaphical information systems.
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.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295759

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.