GEOENGINE - Geoinformatics

Geoinformatics (3rd semester)
Instructor	Dr.-Ing. V. Walter
Lecture	Wednesday / weekly	14:00 - 15:30	Room: M 11.82
Exercise	NN	NN	Room: GSS24D_2.370, 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 Acquisition GIS & Photogrammetry GIS & Remote Sensing Secondary Data Acquisition Data Modeling Geometrical Data Modeling Topological Data Modeling Thematic Data Modeling Data Structures Data Analysis
lecture from	Title	mark out	Screencast
14-Oct-2015	Introduction
21-Oct-2015	Introduction, part 2
28-Oct-2015	Data Collection
04-Nov-2015	Data Collection, part 2
18-Nov-2015	Data Sources
25-Nov-2015	Geometric Data Modelling
02-Dec-2015	Topologic Modelling
09-Dec-2015	Thematic Data Modelling
13-Jan-2016	Data Structures
20-Jan-2016	Web-based Technologies – Basics
27-Jan-2016	Web-based Technologies – Virtual Globes
03-Feb-2016	Web-based Technologies – Virtual Globes, part 2

Exercise Sheets:
Instructions for the Exercises () Exercise Sheet Homework 1 () Exercise Generator Homework 2 (zip) Instructions for Homework 2 () Example of a processed Homework 2 () Exercise Generator Homework 3 (zip) Example of a processed Homework 3 () Exercise Generator Homework 4 (zip) Instructions for Homework 4 () button.zip Additional Exercises Exercise 1 () Exercise 2 () Exercise 3 ()