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Course Outline
- Geographical and Spatial Data and Information, Geoinformatics, Science of Geographical Information:
- Basic principles and terminology
- Information, data, and spatial reports.
- Geospatial information, data sources, technologies, and techniques for their collection.
- Organization of Geospatial Information, models, and structures.
- Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, characteristics, definitions, evolution over time, categories and species, components, function, use.
- Conceptual Codification:
- Spatial – non-spatial properties, characteristics of spatial entities.
- Structure, relationships, and combinations of spatial entities, spatial changes, mechanisms of spatial data organization.
- The Geometry of Spatial Information:
- Geographical location, representation, dimensions, placement of geographical objects in spatial reference systems.
- Vector models, point and distance view, line and surface view, topological relations.
- Raster models and their topological relations.
- Data entry subsystems, management of geometric information in GSP, transformations.
- Geospatial Databases – Models and Structures:
- Architecture and structure of a database management systems.
- Design and development of spatial databases. Input of descriptive information, connection to external databases, methods of correlation of the data.
- Codification – Integration of Spatial Information: Connection and correlations of Geometric – Descriptive Information.
- Recognition – correction of errors. Topological integration. Retrieval, information update, spatial queries.
- Geographic Information on the Internet (Web-GIS, Internet Mapping).
- Specifications, Protocols, Structure, Diffusion, and Interoperability.
- National and international geographic data networks.
- Principles of Analysis and Design of a GIS:
- Terminology
- General design
- Identification of input elements.
- Analysis of financial characteristics
- Customization of the organization by a group of users
- Detailed system design
- Meta-information dictionaries
- Problems
- Introductory elements of Spatial Analysis.