Lecturer(s)
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Mikulecký Peter, prof. RNDr. CSc.
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Čapek Jan, prof. Ing. CSc.
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Course content
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Geographic information systems. Spatial phenomena and features and their modelling. Spatial analyses - definition, history, aims, used metods. Selected methods of spatial analyses (queries, network analyses, topological overlay, geostatistical methods). Visualisation methods.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to reflect the contemporary state of the study field into a student's dissertation thesis supported by his/her own research, to appoint differences between information and knowledge-based management and to summarize the actual development in one of the researching fields.
Student will be able to suitably apply methods of spatial analyses and visualisation methods during solving spatially-oriented tasks.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment
Students have to take part in seminars. They will be required to create and present a seminar work (topics will be provided).
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Recommended literature
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CLARKE, K. C., PARKS, B.O., CRANE, M. P. Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling. Upper Sadle River, 2002.
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Konecny, Gottfried. Geoinformation : remote sensing, photogrammetry and geographic information systems. London: Taylor & Francis, 2003. ISBN 0-415-23795-5.
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LONGLEY, P. A. Geographic information systems and science. Chichester, 2001.
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ROBINSON, A. H. Elements of Cartography. New York, 1995.
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Slocum, Terry A. Thematic cartography and geovisualization. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, 2009. ISBN 978-0-13-229834-6.
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