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Course, academic year 2023/2024
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Open Source GIS - MZ370G14
Title: Open Source GIS
Czech title: Open Source GIS
Guaranteed by: Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography (31-370)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Explanation: nahrazuje MZ370P34
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Přemysl Štych, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Josef Laštovička, Ph.D.
Mgr. Daniel Paluba
Mgr. Jan Svoboda
doc. RNDr. Přemysl Štych, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : MZ370P34
Annotation -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Přemysl Štych, Ph.D. (04.10.2022)
The course focuses on open source GIS technologies and spatial data. Students meet with major Open GIS initiatives and technologies. Emphasis is placed on practical introduction to Open Source GIS technologies and the most important open spatial data databases.
The functionality of Open GIS technology and the accuracy of the Open data are important topic in this course.
Literature -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Přemysl Štych, Ph.D. (04.10.2022)

NETELER, Markus a Helena MITÁŠOVÁ. Open source GIS: a GRASS GIS approach. 3rd ed. New York: Springer, 2008, xix, 406 s. ISBN 978-0-387-35767-6.
QGIS User guide (http://www.qgis.org)
GRASER, Anita. Learning QGIS 2.0, Packt Publishing, 2013, 110 s., ISBN-13: 978-1782167488

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Přemysl Štych, Ph.D. (03.10.2023)

• Attendance: 3 absences allowed, more than 3 absences require a proper apology
• Proper completion and timely submission of task to Moodle. The list of tasks will be available in December, the deadline fo the submission of task is 15th of January 2024.  

Syllabus -
Last update: Ing. Miroslav Čábelka (14.01.2020)

1. Aspects of open source GIS technologies and open spatial data, Open GIS Consorcium, GEO / GEOSS projects, Copernicus, open source codes and open data formats, ISO standards

2. The most important open data sources, evaluation of their quality, Open Street Map, databases CORINE, Urban Atlas…

3. Sources of geoinformation map services, map services in public administration, GEOSS Portal, INSPIRE Portal

4. open remote sensing data, NASA Landsat and MODIS archive, ESA Sentinel mission,

5. Open source software: GRASS / Quantum GIS, ESA Toolbox, LeoWorks: analytical and editing tools, cartographic creation, 3D visualization, data interoperability…

6. Synthesis of the achieved knowledge, evaluation of SW functionality and quality of open data.

 
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