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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Objectives
Contents Definition and characteristics of Geographic Information Systems and overview of the main software.
Knowledge, management and treatment of different types of geographic data for their proper use in the earth sciences.
Extended Syllabus - Presentation of the course;
- Introduction to Geographic Information
Systems;
- Software overview:
proprietary, open source and freeware;
- Cartography and coordinate systems
- Data Georeferencing;
- Data formats:
- Raster;
- Vector;
- Interchange Formats;
- Open Data;
- Operations between data;
- Spatial analysis;
- Thematic maps extraction;
- Data Presentation and delivery.
Recommended Bibliography
Teaching Methods Theoretical lectures and practical exercises in distance learning.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The exam will consist in the preparation and development of a project that will summarize all the skills acquired during the course. The student will present it (power point) during the final examination. At the end of the presentation there will be a question time.
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