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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 | Face to face, Group study, Lab work , Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of practicals per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Çetin CÖMERT | | Co-Lecturer | PROF. DR. Çetin CÖMERT, | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Ensuring an Understanding of the concepts of GIS. What one may achieve wth a GIS. and the differences of a GIS from CAD and Database systems. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Learn about GIS science and technology | 1,2,4 | | | LO - 2 : | Learn spatial analyses capabilities of GISs and be able to model real World problems | 1,2,4 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | Model real world problems using a GIS software.. | 1,2,4 | 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 Overwiew. Concepts and applications, Graph theory and Topology, Topological data structures, Building topology in a GIS, Database Design in GIS, Spatial analyses; Classification of Spatial analysis operations, Vector analyses; Overlay operations, Spatil queries. Raster analyses. Characterizing neighborhood (Slope, orientation, convexity), Reclassificiation operations, raster overlay, proximity, Network Analyses; road, utilities, and hydrographic networks, Web Based GIS, Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) concepts, standards, technologies. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | GIS fundamental concepts and applications; An Introduction to GIS, characteristic GIS applications, historical and current state
Lab1 - Getting Familiar with QGIS 2.12 | | | Week 2 | GIS and Topology; Topological data structures. Building Topology in a GIS. The need for topology
Lab2 - Building Topology in QGIS 2.12 | | | Week 3 | Database design in GIS. ArcGIS feature classes and data types.
Lab3- Database design in QGIS using spatialite. | | | Week 4 | Spatial analyses; Vector operations; overlay, intersect, and bufffer etc. operations.
Lab4- Appliying vector analysis operations in Lab. | | | Week 5 | Non-Spatial and spatial query functions in GIS.
Lab5- Making queries in the Lab lesson. | | | Week 6 | Spatial analysis - Classification of Spatial analysis operations (J.K.Berry)
Lab6-Raster analysis operations in the Lab lesson. Generating slope and aspect maps in QGIS. | | | Week 7 | Spatial analysis -raster operations: proximity maps, weighted overlays and Weighted sum.
Lab7-Applying raster operations in a Multicriteria analysees in the Lab lesson | | | Week 8 | 1st Midterm Exam | | | Week 9 | Network analyses in GIS-1
Lab8-Building a Street network-1 | | | Week 10 | Network analyses in GIS-2
Lab9-Building a Street network-2 | | | Week 11 | Network analyses in GIS-3
Lab10-Building a Utilities network-1 | | | Week 12 | Network analyses in GIS-4
Lab11-Building a Utilities network-2 | | | Week 13 | Network analyses in GIS-5
Lab12-Building a hydrography network-1 | | | Week 14 | 2. Midterm Exam | | | Week 15 | 3 Dimensional GIS
Lab13- 3D GIS implementation | | | 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 | | | |
| 1 | Geographic Information Systems and Science, Longley P.A., Goodchild M.F., Maguire D.J., Rhind D.W., Willey 2001. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | | 1.33 | 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 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 1 | 6 | | Arasınav | 1.15 | 1 | 1.15 | | Proje | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Kısa sınav | .25 | 2 | .5 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 8 | 1 | 8 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Total work load | | | 129.15 |
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