FI:P019 Geographical Information Syste - Course Information

P019 Geographical Information Systems I

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

RNDr. Milan Drášil, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: RNDr. Milan Drášil, CSc.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
• Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)

Syllabus

• An overview of basic notions of geo-information systems , land-oriented infor mation systems and cartography.
• The hierarchy of spatial data: vector representation, raster representation a nd topological relations.
• Spatial data structures and methods of an effective access (indexing a space).
• Operational calculus over vector spatial data.
• Raster representation.
• Basic operations over raster data.
• Topological relations and typical tasks used in geo-information technology.
• Administration of spatial data, databases and techniques related to spatial data.

Language of instruction

Czech

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 1997, recent)
  
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