Lecturer(s)
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Slabý Antonín, prof. PhDr. RNDr. 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 acquaint students with basic approaches towards content of a system analysis and system terminology (typology, system identification, a genetic code, system architecture, methods of software and system engineering etc.).
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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