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| JDZ5860 | Application of Geographical Inf. Syst. | 2+2+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | 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 2 hours of practicals per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Volkan YILDIRIM | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To provide that students have an insight in advanced GIS applications and spatial analysis functions. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Have information about interesting areas of geographical information systems. | 10 | 1,6 | | PO - 2 : | Learn methods of decision making process for specific spatial problems. | 5,8 | 1,6 | | PO - 3 : | Present data with modern map production approaches. | 3 | 1,6 | | PO - 4 : | Learn basic elements and functions of spatial analysis of geographical information systems and modeling real issues. | 2,4,12 | 1,6 | | 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), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Application areas of GIS. Land Information System (LIS) . GIS applications in urban and rural areas. Using GIS in spatial problem solving. Remote sensing and GIS relations. Project based spatial analysis applications via using Arc/Info and ArcView softwares. Macro software applications. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction to Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Historical development of GIS, and importance of GIS in our life | | | Week 2 | Concepts of information technology, information, data, system, information systems etc. Spatial information systems | | | Week 3 | What is GIS? Main functions and components of GIS. How GIS basically works? Vector, raster data models. | | | Week 4 | Using GIS in rural and urban planning | | | Week 5 | GIS applications in urban and rural areas. Using GIS in spatial problem solving | | | Week 6 | GIS applications. The use of GIS in cadastral-based, infrastructure, urban, forestry, business areas, etc | | | Week 7 | Remote sensing and GIS relations | | | Week 8 | Latest developments in GIS area. Internet GIS applications. Remote sensing and GPS integrations with GIS | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Project based spatial analysis applications via using Arc/Info and ArcView softwares | | | Week 11 | Project | | | Week 12 | Project | | | Week 13 | Project | | | Week 14 | Project | | | Week 15 | Submit of the project and discussing | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Yomralıoğlu, T., (2000), ?Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri: Temel Kavramlar ve Uygulamalar? (In Turkish), 4.Baskı, s.480, Akademi Kitabevi, Trabzon | | | |
| 1 | Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Goodchild, David J. Maguire, David W. Rhind, 2007, Geographic Information Systems and Science | | | 2 | W.L. Gorr, K.S. Kurland, 2008, GIS Tutorial, Third Edition, Redland, California, USA | | | 3 | ArcGIS software documents. http://www.esri.com | | | 4 | Stanford University http://library.stanford.edu/depts/gis/index.html | | | 5 | Yomralıoğlu, T., (1999), ?Yerel Yönetimlerde Kent Bilgi Sistemi Uygulamaları Sempozyumu? Bildiriler Kitabı (editör), KTÜ, s.325, Trabzon | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 14 | | | | | Project | 8 | | | 15 | | Practice | 3 | | | 5 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | | 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 | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 4 | 12 | 48 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 3 | 10 | 30 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Arasınav | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Uygulama | 2 | 10 | 20 | | Proje | 3 | 5 | 15 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 15 | 1 | 15 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Total work load | | | 186 |
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