SUBJECT

Geoinformatics

lecture

master

Faculty of Informatics

3

Semester 1

Autumn semester

• Outline of GIS: main data models

• Relational database and the vector based GIS

• Spaghetti topology and its standards (OGC)

• Relational databases and topology preserving data structures

• Network model: linear reference and dynamic segmentation

• Routing

• Software products and libraries for handling spatial data

• Spatial application development

• Raster based data structures

• Simple image processing tasks

• Digital filters • Classification, segmentation

• 3D data models: TIN and DEM

• Tools for application development

• P. Rigaux, M. O. Scholl, A. Voisard: Spatial Databases: With Application to GIS, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002.

• Hassan A. Karimi: Handbook of Research on Geoinformatics IGI Global, 2009, ISBN 9781591409953

• Kresse, Wolfgang, Danko, David M. (Eds.): Springer Handbook of Geographic Information Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-540-72678-4

Suggested literature:

• Hannan Samet: The design and analysis of spatial data structures, Addison-Wesley, 1994 Thomlinson: Thinking about GIS, ESRI Press, 2012