Academic year/semester: 2025/26/2

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 2
Seminarium:0
Practice: 0
Laboratory: 2
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: None

Course Leader: Krisztina Demény Ph.D.

Faculty: Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering, 1034 Budapest, Doberdó utca 6.

Course Description:
The teaching aim of the course is to introduce the basic theory and practice of GIS. The course will highlight the development of GIS, it will present the database model of GIS, the basic data management techniques and the data analyses method. The course will also demonstrate the data visualisation methods and possibilities of GIS.

Competences:
In possession of state-of-the-art IT skills, being able to use professional databases and certain design, modelling, and simulation software depending on their specialty. Knowledge of the learning, knowledge acquisition, and data collection methods of the special fields of environment protection, their ethical limitations and problem-solving techniques. Adequate perseverance and endurance of monotony to perform practical operations.

Topics:
1. Lecture: Basic concepts of GIScience and Geoinformatics
Practice: Basics of QGIS

2.
Lecture: The history of GIS
Practice: GIS operations

3.. Lecture: Components of GIS
Practice: vector mode

4.Lecture: Basic GIS operations
Practice: raster model

5.Lecture: Different type of GIS applications
Practice: Basic GIS operation in QGIS I.

6.Lecture: Modelling of Real World I.
Practice: Basic GIS operation in QGIS II.

7.Lecture: Modelling of real world II.
Practice: Thematic maps with QGIS I.

8.Lecture: Vector model
Practice: Thematic maps with QGIS II.

9. Lecture: Raster model
Practice: Creating database in QGIS

10. Lecture: 3D and DDM
Practice: Interpolation in QGIS

11.Lecture: Object oriented model
Practice: Project work I.

12. Lecture: Creating of Spatial database, Some visualizations method, the concepts of map
Practice: Project work II.

13.Written test

14.Replacement test

Assessment: Written tests (lectures + practice work) and project work

Exam Types:

Mid Term Exam

Compulsory bibliography: Tomislav Hengl: Geostatisitcal mapping http://spatial-analyst.net/book/ Michael de Smith, Paul Longley, Mike Goodchild: Geospatial Analysis - A comprehensive guide (http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/) John P. Snyder : Map Projections: A Working Manual http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1395

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