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| HRT4031 | Geographic Information Systems | 2+1+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOMATICS ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of practicals per week | | Lecturer | Arş. Gör. Fatih TERZİ | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Learning the basic concepts, technologies and spatial analysis of GIS theoretically and practically. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | learn basic information about GIS. | 2 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | select and implment spatial analyses in the GIS field | 5 | 4, | | LO - 3 : | use information technologies effectively. | 9 | 4, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| GIS basic concepts and implementations; Introduction to GIS, characteristic GIS implementations, historical development and current status, Graph theory and topology; Topological data representations, building topology, the need for topology in GIS, correction of topological errors, database design in GIS, Data Models and data modeling, Spatial Data Infrastructures, database design in the context of NSDI and INSPIRE, Spatial analyses, Classification of spatial analysis operations, Raster operations, Surface analyses, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process), Network representation in ArcGIS, Web GIS; basic concepts and technologies. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | GIS basic concepts and implementation; introduction to GIS, characteristic GIS implementations, historical development and current status. | | | Week 2 | Graph theory and topology; Topological data representations, building topology, the need for topology in GIS. | | | Week 3 | Lab-Topology building and correction of topological errors | | | Week 4 | Database design in GIS. Data Models and data modeling. Database design in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructures, NSDI and INSPIRE. | | | Week 5 | Spatial analysis-1; vector overlay, vector proximity (buffer), intersect analyses.
Lab- Database design and vector overlay operations implementation (Expropriation) | | | Week 6 | Spatial Analysis-2; Classification of spatial analysis operations, Raster operations; Simple and weighted proximity, weighted sum, Surface analysis | | | Week 7 | Spatial Analysis-3: Multi-Criteria Decision Making, AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) | | | Week 8 | Lab- MCDM implementation in vector and raster modes, slope and aspect maps production | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Spatial Analysis-4: Network analysis: Network (graph) concepts and Network representation, Djkstra and A* shortest path algorithms and Heuristics | | | Week 11 | Network analysis implementations, network representation in ArcGIS, data quality in networks | | | Week 12 | Lab - Network dataset creation, best-fit path, Location-Allocation analysis | | | Week 13 | Web GIS; basic concepts and technologies | | | Week 14 | Lab - Web GIS | | | Week 15 | Lab Exam; Implementation Exam; testing of IT skills with the ability to use GIS software. | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Principles of Geographical Information Systems for Land resources assessment, P.A. Burrough, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 1998 | | | 2 | An Introduction to Digital maping, S.E. Masry, Y.C. Lee, Lecture Notes, Department of Surveying Engineering, University of new Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, June 1988. | | | 3 | Beyond Mapping, Concepts, Algorithms, and Issues in GIS, Berry,J.K., GIS World Books, Forth Collins, Co, 1993, 226p. | | | 4 | Fundamental operations in computer-assisted map analysis, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Volume 1, Issue 2 1987 , pages 119 ? 136. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1.5 | 20 | | Laboratory exam | 14 | | 3 | 30 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 1.5 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 13 | 26 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 13 | 26 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 2 | 13 | 26 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 1 | 6 | | Arasınav | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Proje | 2 | 13 | 26 | | Kısa sınav | .25 | 2 | .5 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Total work load | | | 123.5 |
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