Semester: 6
Elective
ECTS: 6
Hours per week: 2
Professor: T.B.D.
Teaching style: Face to face, tutorials and project work
Grading: Final written exam (50%), Individual projects (30%), group exercises (20%)
Activity | Workload |
---|---|
Lectures | 20 |
Tutorials | 6 |
Group work on Laboratory projects | 54 |
Individual study | 70 |
Course total | 150 |
Upon successful completion of the course students:
1. Geographical and Spatial Data and Information, Geoinformatics, Science of Geographical Information:
2. Conceptual Codification:
3. The Geometry of Spatial Information:
4. Geospatial Databases – Models and Structures:
5. Codification and Integration of Spatial Information:
6. Principles of Analysis and Design of a GIS:
7. Exercises / Project
Bolstad, P., 2016. GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems, Fifth Edition, Eider Press.
Kerski, J. & Clark, J., 2014. The GIS Guide to Public Domain Data. ESRI Press.
Rigaux, P, Scholl, M, 2002, Spatial databases :with application to GIS, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
McDonnell, R, Kemp, K, International GIS dictionary Cambridge, [England] : GeoInformation International ; New York, NY : John Wiley & Sons , 1995.
Kraak, M. J., Ormeling, F. J., 1996, Cartography: Visualization of spatial data, Harlow, Longman.
http://eurogi.org/ (European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information).
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ (Open Geospatial Consortium).
http://support.esri.com/other-resources/gis-dictionary/a (GIS Dictionary).
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/Publications/Tech_Reports/92/92-13.PDF (GIS Terminology).
https://www.gislounge.com/open-source-gis-applications/ (Open Source GIS Software).
https://www.gislounge.com/gis-software-applications/ (Commercial and Proprietary GIS Software).
https://www.gislounge.com/bibliographies/ (Bibliographies).
Upon successful completion of the course students:
1. Geographical and Spatial Data and Information, Geoinformatics, Science of Geographical Information:
2. Conceptual Codification:
3. The Geometry of Spatial Information:
4. Geospatial Databases – Models and Structures:
5. Codification and Integration of Spatial Information:
6. Principles of Analysis and Design of a GIS:
7. Exercises / Project
Bolstad, P., 2016. GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems, Fifth Edition, Eider Press.
Kerski, J. & Clark, J., 2014. The GIS Guide to Public Domain Data. ESRI Press.
Rigaux, P, Scholl, M, 2002, Spatial databases :with application to GIS, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
McDonnell, R, Kemp, K, International GIS dictionary Cambridge, [England] : GeoInformation International ; New York, NY : John Wiley & Sons , 1995.
Kraak, M. J., Ormeling, F. J., 1996, Cartography: Visualization of spatial data, Harlow, Longman.
http://eurogi.org/ (European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information).
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ (Open Geospatial Consortium).
http://support.esri.com/other-resources/gis-dictionary/a (GIS Dictionary).
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/Publications/Tech_Reports/92/92-13.PDF (GIS Terminology).
https://www.gislounge.com/open-source-gis-applications/ (Open Source GIS Software).
https://www.gislounge.com/gis-software-applications/ (Commercial and Proprietary GIS Software).
https://www.gislounge.com/bibliographies/ (Bibliographies).