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Geographic Information Systems

Course developer

Prior knowledge

BūvZ3135, Geodesy I

BūvZB007, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

BūvZB009, Cartography

Replaced course

Ģeog3003 [GGEG3003] Geographic Information Systems

Course abstract

Students are acquainted with the history and classification of the creation and development of geographical information systems.
Gains an in-depth understanding of the nature of spatial data creation and use, standardization, principles, systems and capabilities of spatial information acquisition, storage, circulation and use.
Acquires basic knowledge and skills to know and use spatial information systems, their data and results, in the next professional field. As a trained specialist to plan and learn to use its possibilities in different situations in their prospective professional activities in surveying, construction, land and land management, agriculture, land reclamation, forestry, the environment and other sectors, including public and municipal government and the private sector.
In laboratory work, acquires practical skills in working with ArcGIS software, learning spatial information data:
- search, extraction and use quality - suitability assessment skills;
- basics of creating and transforming different data - creating interoperability;
- creation, correction, addition and development of new generations;
- basics of analytical activities;
- Skills of designing work results, creating cartographic applications and presentations.

Learning outcomes and their assessment

1. Understand the nature, development history, structure, possibilities, necessity, and use of Geographic Information Systems; - 1st test
2. Know how to navigate geographic information systems and the identification and evaluation of the possibilities of using spatial data available in them, defining tasks and requirements for system creators, maintainers, and users, as well as data developers and maintainers - test 2.
3. Knows the possibilities of building and using spatial data, the basics of their standardization and use the principles of evaluating the quality of use, the techniques of ensuring interoperability, transformation-matching possibilities, as well as the possibilities of solving analytical tasks, and the basics of forming result reports. 3rd test
4. Able to search for sources of spatial data, evaluate the suitability of the spatial information found in them to the requirements of GIS operations and determine their application possibilities, create a working environment for a set of spatial data suitable for use on your work computer (data import and configuration for work); – laboratory works.
5. Able to perform simple manipulations with GIS data and their sets, combining them, transforming - transforming, supplementing with information or correcting, creating new data or their layers, as well as defining analytical tasks for the system and evaluating the obtained results, ensuring the export of the obtained results to another system or for preservation for registration - laboratory works.
6. Able to design the final results of the developed work as sets of spatial or cartographic images or presentations of prepared informative - report materials in both digital and printed (paper) formats, as well as prepare and give their own presentation - independent works.

Course Content(Calendar)

In full-time face-to-face studies:
1. Nature and importance of geographic information systems; (1h)
2. History of creation and development of geographic information systems; (1h)
3. Structure/components of geographic information systems and their functions; (1h)
4. Geographic information as the basis of geographic information systems; (1h)
5. Fundamentals of designing the creation and maintenance of geographic information systems; (1h)
6. Geographic information acquisition and processing technologies; (1h)
7. Technical equipment of geographic information systems; (1h)

Test 1: General theoretical and practical principles of GIS. (2h)

8. Geographic information systems software; (1h)
9. Geodesy and Geographic Information Systems; (1h)
10. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems; (1h)
11. Geographic information systems and remote sensing - photogrammetry; (1h)
12. Metadata of geographic information, their nature, structure, application, and meaning; (1h)
13. Geographic information data compatibility (interoperability), its nature, and challenges in system functionality; (1h)
14. Understanding the basics of developing Geoinformation products and works, their nature and importance; (1h)

Test 2: GIS and its data structure and the basics of ensuring operational capabilities. (2h)

15. Geographic information analysis options and their processes for users of geographic information systems; (1h)
16. Introduction to the organization of information analysis processes using the capabilities of Geographical Information Systems; (1h)
17. Fundamentals of three-dimensional spatial models and use of their results within Geographical Information Systems (1h)
18. The possibility of including the results of automated (programmed) solutions of geo-information product and work developments in control, planning, and management automation processes; (1h)
19. Possibilities and choice of designing the results of the development of geographic information systems; (1h)
20. Development of cartographic and visual documentation and evaluation of their quality; (1h)
21. Geographic information systems in Latvia (including Legislation, terminology); (1h)
22. Current application of geographic information systems in the national economy and prospects for development of use. (1h)

3rd test: basics of GIS analytical operations and visual presentation of results, state legislation (2h)

Laboratory work:
1. Searching for spatial information data on the Internet, quality assessment of found data, import and its integration into the student's computer work environment, transformations, matching, editing; (7h)
2. Creation, design of information products, analytical activities in the GIS environment, creation, editing, integration of new data - information into products (creation of development of personally chosen topics) evaluation of results (7h)
3. Visual presentation of the obtained results, development of cartographic images, development of presentations, their preparation and transformation into usable formats, as well as making prints and checking the obtained results (6h)

Practical works/Seminars (8h):
1. Preparation of the seminar report and presentation, using topics chosen and implemented by students within the framework of practical work and independent work; (4h)
2. Presentation of the topics of the completed work results (4h).

Independent work (72h): Preparation for tests; Development of laboratory works - research, according to the topic of practical work chosen by the student.

In part-time correspondence studies:
To test knowledge, it is planned to take two tests (combining all topics of the lectures). The amount of laboratory work is reduced to 10 hours covering the intended topic, with emphasis on the performance of permanent work. No seminars will be organized.

Requirements for awarding credit points

Exam consisting of:
• Exam - written and oral, on the subject issues, according to the received control question ticket.
• Results of planned tests - 3
• The result of the defense of the presentation of practical tasks (on the topics acquired within the laboratory work of the study course - according to the topic chosen by the student).
Prerequisites for passing the exam:
- successful assessment in theoretical issues - tests;
- Completed and credited practical work tasks (after presentation);
- Attendance of at least 60% of face-to-face classes.

Description of the organization and tasks of students’ independent work

Promoting the development of a personally chosen topic:
1. Search of spatial information data on the Internet, etc., evaluation of the quality of the found data, import and integration into the student's computer work environment, transformations, matching, editing;
2. Development of information products, design, analytical activities in GIS environment, creation of new data - information, editing, integration into products, evaluation of results;
3. Visual design of the obtained results, development of cartographic images, development of the presentation, their preparation and transformation in various usage formats, as well as creation of printouts and tests of the obtained results;

Closing - Preparation of the presentation of the completed works (also in the form of a paper printout file - at least 10 pages) and defense;

Criteria for Evaluating Learning Outcomes

Exam consists of:
- written and oral answers on the day of the exam on the subject questions, according to the control question ticket received where:
5 questions according to the study topic;
assessment on a 10-point scale.
The total assessment of the study course exam depends on the assessment of the exam, the assessment of the results of the study course tests and the assessment of the practical - homework presentation.
A student can obtain a successful mark on a test or exam if at least 50% of the test questions have answered correctly.
The practical task of homework presentation evaluated in accordance with the evaluation procedure specified in the practical tasks of homework.
Students, for whom the marks of the study course tests and the mark of the presentation of practical works are at least 7, may not pass the theoretical test of the exam and equate the arithmetic mean of the marks of the tests taken from the study course to the assessment of the theoretical test.
The final exam mark calculated as the arithmetic mean of the test answer assessment and the average semester mark, which calculated as the arithmetic mean of the marks of the tests taken in the study course and the homework presentation assessment marks.

Compulsory reading

1. Stūrmanis E. Ģeoinformācijas sistēmas. Jelgava: LLU, 006., 90 lpp.
2. Ģeomātikas pamati., Rīgas Tehniskās universitāte . Rīga, 2006. 66 lpp.
3. Mūsdienu Latvijas topogrāfiskās kartes. Rīga: VZD, 2001. 203 lpp
4. Ģeotelpiskās informācijas likums. 2009.g.

Further reading

1. 1. Mūsdienu Latvijas topogrāfiskās kartes. Autoru kolektīvs A. Zelmanis ... u.c. Rīga: VZD, 2001.
2. Kraus K. Photogrammetrie, Band I, Grundlagen und Standartverfahren, Dummler/Bonn, 1998., 450 p.
Kraus K.. Photogrammetry. Vol.1: Fundamentals and standard processes. Köln: Dümmler, 2000. 397 p. 2000.g. IR LLU FB 1 eks.
3. Štrauhmanis J. Kartogrāfija: Mmācību līdzeklis. Rīga: RTU, 2004. , 109 lpp.

Periodicals and other sources

www.isprs.org;
www.eurosdr.ne;
žurnāls “Mērnieks”. ISSN 1407-7124.

Notes

In professional higher education bachelor study program “Land Management and Surveying” full-time studies and part-time studies