Course: General and Digital Cartography

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Course title General and Digital Cartography
Course code KBE/548
Organizational form of instruction Practice
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Frequency of the course In each academic year, in the winter semester.
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Semančíková Eva, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Grill Stanislav, Mgr.
Course content
Content of lectures: * Introduction - general principles of GIS, basic concepts, vector data, raster data, data sources, data quality. * Project, work with layers, attributes, symbology. Creation of outputs. * Coordinate systems, displaying data in different projections. * Spatial data processing. * ArcGIS online, work with mobile applications. * Data creation - georeferencing, digitization.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Demonstration, Work with multi-media resources (texts, internet, IT technologies)
  • Class attendance - 36 hours per semester
  • Preparation for classes - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for credit - 20 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Students will learn the basic principles of working with GIS. They will learn how to work in ArcGIS Pro. They will become proficient in basic ArcGIS Pro operations involving geographic data, primarily vector data.
Students will learn how to process, evaluate, create and present spatial data in ArcGIS Pro.
Prerequisites
Basic computer skills at secondary school level are expected.

Assessment methods and criteria
Test, Interim evaluation

Students receive assignments for homework at the end of each lesson, which they must complete by the start of the following lesson. The assignments must be turned in on a consistent basis as precondition for admission for final test. The form of the final test is an independent assignment. Students have 120 minutes to process, assess, and build a workflow for the given spatial data.
Recommended literature
  • ArcGIS Pro - Help.
  • Kennedy, Michae. Introducing geographic information systems with ArcGIS : a workbook approach to learning GIS /. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2009.


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