Geographical Information Systems

Lecturer:

Josef Krása (gar.)

Tutor:

Josef Krása (gar.), Miroslav Bauer, Václav David, Petr Kavka, Petr Koudelka

Supervisor:

Department of Irrigation, Drainage and Landscape

Synopsis:

Introduction to Geoinformatics. Main components of GIS - users, software, systems, hardware. Structure of geodata, basics of data preprocessing, searching the information. Basics og Geodatabases, work with raster and vector oriented systems. GIS in designing and in landscape and water management. Intro into morphological modelling. Digital terrain models, landuse mapping, soil maps, precipitation maps. Available commercial databases nad free sources. Intro into remote sensing.

Requirements:

none

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Learning the basic principles of GIS, building a project, data preprocessing and output definition.

Study materials:

1.Tuček J.(1998): Geografické informační systémy. Principy a praxe.- Computer Press, Praha, p. 424, 2.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.

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
Fri	roomTH:B-879 David V. 10:00–11:50 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.391) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) B879roomTH:B-879 Koudelka P. 12:00–13:50 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.392) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) B879roomTH:B-879 Bauer M. 17:00–18:50 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.101) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) B879
Thu	roomTH:C-210 Krása J. 16:00–17:50 EVEN WEEK (lecture parallel1) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) C210
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: