FPF:UAA1250 Geographical Information Syste - Course Information
UAA1250 Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Peter Kováčik, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Peter Kováčik, Ph.D.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites
- Knowledge of topics within the content of the course , successful completion of the course and final test.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Archaeology (programme FPF, N7105 HiVe)
- Archaeology (programme FPF, N7109 Arch)
- Course objectives
- The course includes basic chapters of Geoinformatics and geographic information systems (GIS) for archeology students. Students there learn the basic principles of archaeological processing geodata in numerical and graphical form. Emphasis is placed on the representation of reality in the digital environment, a description of geoinformation technologies (GIT) and their use in archeology. In the seminars, students learn the theoretical and practical level, the basic rules geoinformatic work and learn produce cartographically correct outputs. Students will be able to handle the specific archaeological data archaeological sites. Classes will be held partly in the computer room and partly in a foreign language.
- Syllabus
- 1 / General Introduction, terminology.
2 / Introduction to Geoinformatics.
3 / Geoinformation technology.
4 / Hardware GIS.
5 / Raster and vector data.
6 / Data. Digital geographic data in the Czech Republic
7 / Prepare data for processing in GIS.
8 / Data input to GIS - database, table, shapefile, text file.
9 / Edit data.
10 / Data Visualization.
11 / Rules for creating maps of archaeological sites
12 / GIS outputs and publications.
13 / Concluding a test.
- 1 / General Introduction, terminology.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Voženílek, V.:. Geografické informační systémy I - pojetí, historie, základní komponenty. info
- Longley, P. A., et al.:. Geographic Information Systems and Science. London: Wiley&Sons, 2001. info
- Rapant, P.:. Geoinformatika a geoinformační technologie. VŠB-TU Ostrava. info
- Davis, E.D. GIS pro každého. Vytváříme mapy na počítači, Computer Press. info
- Kuna, M. GIS v archeologickém výzkumu regionu: vývoj pravěké sídelní oblasti středních Čech, Archeologické rozhledy XXXXVIII. info
- Raper, J.F.:. Multidimensional Geographic Information Science. London, Taylor & Francis. info
- Tuček, J.:. Geografické informační systémy. Principy a praxe. Praha, 1998. info
- Assessment methods
- Oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Knowledge of the topics in the content of the course, successful completion of the course and final test.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2015, recent)
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