GEOENGINE - Geoinformatics

Geoinformatics (3rd semester)
Instructor	Prof. Dr.-Ing. D. Fritsch / Dr.-Ing. V. Walter
Lecture	Wednesday / weekly	14:00 - 15:30	Room: M 11.82
Exercise	Tuesday / weekly	15:45 - 17:15	Room: Cippool
Course Contents
Introduction to GIS, data capture (methods, data sources, hardware, data types and data structures), data administration (file systems, databases, data models), representation schemes, operations in databases, spatial access and data structures, official information systems
Pre-requisites

Recommended textbooks
D. Ian Heywood, Sarah Cornelius, Steve Carver, Ian Heywood: An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems, 2nd Edition 2002, Prentice Hall. Christopher Jones: Geographical Information Systems and Computer Cartography, Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., Harlow, 1997. Michael Worboys: GIS – A Computing Perspective, Taylor and Francis, 1995. S. Aronoff: Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective, WDL Publications, Ottawa, Canada, 1991.

Lecture Notes:
Introduction Data Collection Data Modeling
lecture from	Title	mark out	Screencast
15-Oct-2014	Introduction to the Exercises
22-Oct-2014	Introduction
29-Oct-2014	Data Collection, part 1
05-Nov-2014	Geometric Data Modelling
12-Nov-2014	Geometric Data Modelling, part 2
19-Nov-2014	Data Collection, part 2
03-Dec-2014	Data Collection, part 3
09-Dec-2014	Exercise: Web based GIS technolgoes, Internet Basics
10-Dec-2014	Line Smoothing etc
17-Dec-2014	Lab 1 in Lecture: Guidelines Georeferencing and Digitizing with QGIS Files for Lab 1 QGIS website
17-Dec-2014	Data Modeling – Topology
07-Jan-2015	Data Modeling – Topology, cont
07-Jan-2015	Lab 2 in Lecture: DTM Analysis Files for Lab 2
13-Jan-2015	Exercise: Web-based GIS technologies, GIS technologies
14-Jan-2015	Topological Modelling
20-Jan-2015	Exercise: Web-based GIS technologies – Virtual Globes
21-Jan-2015	Thematic Modelling
21-Jan-2015	Lab 3 in Lecture: Layer Visualizations Files for Lab 3
28-Jan-2015	Databases and SQL
28-Jan-2015	Lab 4 in Lecture: Short Path Analysis Files for Lab 4
11-Feb-2015	Exercise: Web-based GIS technologies – Map Services

Exercise Sheets:
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