Z8121 Global Spatial Data Project

Faculty of Science
Spring 2023

The course is not taught in Spring 2023

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Konečný, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Konečný, CSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Milan Konečný, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to characterize methodology, concept and individual steps in building of global spatial-oriented projects with focus on Global map, Global spatial data infrastructure, Digital planet Earth, and Geographic database of the UN. Attention is paid to organizational, economic, political and ecological aspect, as well as technological matters, mainly data quality, and legislative aspects related to data utilization in different cultural, political and economic environments. Questions and prerequisites of creation of a sustainable global information society.
Learning outcomes
Students will be acquainted and tested from the methodological and conceptual steps of creating global spatially oriented projects with an emphasis on projects Global Map, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure, Digital Planet Earth and the UN Geographic Database, and the new UN Global Geospatial Information Management (UN GGIM) and Digital band and path (DBAR). Both new initiatives strongly support the UN guidelines, namely Agenda 2030 (addressing 17 Sustainable Development Goals) and the Sendai Framework (7 Disaster Reduction Goals) formulated at the UN Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Sendai, Japan, 2015. . (DRR stands for Disaster Risk Reduction). The contribution of cartographers, geoinformatics, and remote sensing is key to achieving these goals, especially in the collection, analysis, processing, and visualization of spatial data and information to address global issues such as pandemics and natural disasters. Emphasis is also placed on comprehensible ways of communicating with the public. In addition to organizational economic, political and environmental aspects, attention is also focused on technological issues, especially the quality of data and legislative aspects related to the use of data in various cultural, political, and economic environments.
Syllabus
  • 1. Agenda 21 and its role in the establishment, creation, and utilization of global spatial-oriented projects. Impulses of Rio 92 and Rio+10 conferences. 2. Information society and sustainable development: sustainable global information society. 3. Requirements and motives leading to the creation of global spatial projects. 4. Global map project: history of establishment, concept, content, data interpretation. 5. Use and precision testing of Global map outputs. Data updating. 6. EuroglobalMap: European contribution to Global Map. 7. Global spatial data infrastructure (GSDI): motives of creation, the importance for the global information society. Organization and approach to implementation. 8. GSDI: description of geospatial data, geospatial data catalog. 9. GSDI: geospatial data visualization WEBmapping, access, and delivery of geospatial data open data access, geospatial services, case studies. 10. Digital planet Earth (DE): the reflection of national spatial data infrastructures, technological approach (Al Gore), sustainable information society (European-Chinese-Asian-Australian approach). 11. Geographic database of the United Nations: motives, concept, data layers, updating, and interpretation. 12.Project Global Geospatial Information Management (U.N. GGIM) for data and information solutions of Agenda 2030 and the Sendai Framework. 13. Role and scientific agenda of small countries in global spatial-oriented projects; interrelationship with National geoinformation infrastructure (NGII) in the Czech Republic. 14. Case business study: use of global spatial-oriented projects.
Literature
  • Longley,P.A., Goodchild,M.F., Maurige,D.J., Rhind,D.W.(2001): Geographic Information Systems and Science, Wiley and Sons. Chichester, 454p.
  • Voženílek, V.(2005): Cartogrphy for GIS, Geovisualisation and Map Communication. 1. vyd., Vyd. UP Olomouc, ISBN 80-244-1047-8
  • DEMERS, Michael N. Fundamentals geographic information systems. 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000, xiii, 498. ISBN 0471314234. info
  • TUČEK, Ján. Geografické informační systémy : principy a praxe. Vyd. 1. Praha: Computer Press, 1998, xiv., 364. ISBN 807226091X. info
  • KONEČNÝ, Milan and Vít VOŽENÍLEK. Vývojové trendy v kartografii a GIS (Development Trends in Cartography and GIS). In Geografie na prahu 21. století. 1st ed. Praha: ČGS, 1998. info
Teaching methods
theoretical lectures
Assessment methods
Written tests
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, autumn 2017, Spring 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022.
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