GIS in Landscape Engineering

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Josef Krása (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Irrigation, Drainage and Landscape

Synopsis:

Geographical information systems and their use in landscape engineering - basic software components, data management, vector and raster formats. Principles of modeling erosion and transport processes, rainfall runoff processes, landscape management. Influence on landscape stability and quality of natural resources. Preparation of input layers (digital elevation model, map of land use, soils, etc.), data sources management. Remote sensing data application.

Seminars will be focused on practical use of GIS Idrisi 32 and ArcGIS.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1.Tuček J.(1998): Geografické informační systémy. Principy a praxe.- Computer Press, Praha, p. 424

2.Kolář j., Halounová L. et Pavelka K. (1997): Dálkový průzkum země 10.- Fsv ČVUT, Praha

3.Longley P. A., Goodchild M. F., Maguire D. J., Rhind D. W. (2001): Geographic Information Systems and Science, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471892750, 472 p.

4.Krása J. (2004): Hodnocení erozních procesů ve velkých povodích za podpory GIS. Dizertační práce, Fakulta stavební ČVUT, Praha

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	roomTH:B-879 Krása J. 16:00–18:50 (parallel nr.101) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) B879
Fri
Thu
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: