KGG/QGIG GIScience for Geographers

Lecturer: Petr Šimáček
Lecture: 1 hour/week + tutorial 2 hours/week
Credits: 5
Winter/Summer semester
Form of course completion: course credit

In theoretical part of course following issues are solved: basic statistical concepts, graphical representation of geographic phenomena and their analysis; absolute, relative and cumulative frequency and the graphical representation, the basic statistical characteristics, depending random variables and their applications in geography, time series; GIS development, basic components of GIS, hardware demands and possibilities of use of modern technologies, software solutions and GIS software producers, data and data models in geoinformatics, digital data sources in the Czech Republic, technology and use of GPS. Practical part is aimed at work in computer laboratory and is concerned with: data sources for regional research in the CR and abroad, map servers, freeware GIS software and its application in thematic map creation, GPS mapping.