SUBJECT

Title

Spatial System Design

Type of instruction

practical

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

3

Recommended in

Semester 4

Typically offered in

Spring semester

Course description
  • Methodology of system design and system construction, schematic system architecture.

  • Building strategies, analysis and function planning.

  • Physical design: tables, charts, functions.

  • System implementation, documentation, deliverance and monitoring.

  • Finding appropriate data sources, data parameterization, critical analysis and synthesis of data sources.

  • Advanced use of ArcGIS: spatial queries (is within, overlap, intersect, contains, near to, etc), attribute queries, spatial queries, spatial data analysis: buffer zones, overlay.

  • Map conversions to different projection systems.

  • Joint management of vector and raster data.

  • Editing maps: editing tools and complex spatial editing operations (join, modify, merge by geometry, attributes by merge) in Arc Map.

  • Linking external data to map projects: geocoding.

  • Construction and use of address register, address based geocoding.

  • Methods of map finishing and map publishing.

  • Consultation

Readings

 

  • ESRI: Building Spatial Databases

 

Suggested literature:

  • Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Concepts Paperback, by Michael Zeiler, ESRI Press, 2010