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Environmental Informatics - MO550P83E
Title: Environmental Informatics
Guaranteed by: Institute for Environmental Studies (31-550)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
Capacity: 33
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Additional information: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1688
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Ing. Luboš Matějíček, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Ing. Luboš Matějíček, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The lecture is focused on advanced methods of computer processing of spatially bound information using GIS, DPZ, GPS, statistical programs and modeling tools for solving dynamic models of material and energy flows. For students of natural sciences, it is a basic subject, which is followed by other thematically focused elective lectures, exercises and seminars. The presentation of individual approaches to data processing is based on methodological materials of ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) and specialist foreign literature. The lecture is conducted in the form of a presentation of individual methods with computer demonstrations of selected tasks, which are further processed by students as part of exercises. The lecture and exercise are also available in the MOODLE system to support face-to-face and distance learning through online courses available on the WWW (lecture and exercise are offered in Czech or English).
Last update: Matějíček Luboš, Ing., Ph.D. (14.03.2024)
Literature -

Mitchell, A. The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis. ESRI, Redlands, 1999.

Zeiler, M. Modeling Our World. The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design. ESRI, Redlands, 1999.

Goodchild, M. GIS and Environmental Modeling: Progress and Research Issues. John Wiley&Sons, New York, 1996.

Aronoff, S. Remote Sensing for GIS Managers. ESRI, Redlands, 2005.

Cooke, D. Fun with GPS. ESRI, Redlands, 2005.

Last update: Matějíček Luboš, Ing., Ph.D. (14.03.2024)
Requirements to the exam -

Subject MO550P83E Environmental Informatics is taught in attendance form or, in justifiable cases, by distance learning. Presentations of lectures and demo exercises are available on MOODLE https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1688 in PDF format.

To be awarded credit, demo tasks must be completed and, in case of absence from the exercise, the required results must be submitted for review in MOODLE by the end of the grading period. The task is completed when you get more than 50 points in the range of 0 to 100. The recommended submission deadline is the next exercise.

The final classification will be based on your report on the selected scientific paper, which you will choose and prepare according to the attached template. The topic of the selected scientific paper should be related to environmental informatics and your research background. The template and examples of already submitted reports are available in MOODLE.

Last update: Matějíček Luboš, Ing., Ph.D. (14.03.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Information sources about environment: Introduction

2. Geographic Information System (GIS): Shapefile

3. Geographic Information System (GIS): Geodatabase

4. Geographic Information System (GIS): Data and methods- 3D analysis

5. Geographic Information System (GIS): Data and methods- raster analysis

6. Selected methods of Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and geostatistics (ESDA, spatial interpolation)

7. Methods of network analysis and introduction to geo(databases)

8. Remote sensing: Introduction

9. GPS- introduction

10. Project for terrain research exercises

11. Data processing based on terrain research exercises

12. Remote sensing: Classifications

13. Presentation of data about environment, using IMS

Part of the exercise is the presentation of foreign projects:
-A planetary-scale platform for Earth science data & analysis (Google Earth Engine)
-ArcGIS Living Atlas (ESRI spatial database about earth science)
-Explore satellite imagery (the Digital Earth Africa project, Digital Earth Africa Explorer)
-3D models in earth science (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online)
-Data processing in GIS (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online)
-Analyze urban heat (ArcGIS Pro)
-Modeling of water quality using GIS (Chesapeake Bay Program, ArcGIS Pro)
-Investigate pollution patterns with space-time analysis (ArcGIS Pro)
-Terrain mapping (ArcGIS Field Maps)
-Risk Assessment mapping (Map, analyze, and share fire incident data, ArcGIS Online)
-Spatial Data Science with R (https://rspatial.org/)

Last update: Matějíček Luboš, Ing., Ph.D. (12.03.2025)
Learning outcomes -

In the subject Environmental Informatics, students should include the following learning outcomes:
- familiarization with modern methods of data processing in the context of new computer technologies, which will significantly influence research activities worldwide in future decades,
- be able to cooperate on foreign projects where, in addition to mastering professional communication, emphasis is also placed on the use of modern computer methods for data processing,
- the ability to develop their skills in the context of emerging new computer systems for acquiring, processing and presenting data.

Last update: Matějíček Luboš, Ing., Ph.D. (12.03.2025)
 
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