Geoinformatics in geology

obligatory courses

Student should participate in every classes. Three excused absences are allowed provided the student completes the unaccomplished work on their own.

The content of the course are the methods of acquisition geoinformation, its storage, processing, sharing, and use in the work of engineering geology. Almost 100% of geological information has geospatial reference, that is geoinformation. In the Earth sciences, which include geology, geospatial information mainstreaming is necessary for the proper conduct of research and analysis, both in the cognitive as well as in the area of practical activities - including engineering. During the course, students will learn about the types of geoinformation, forms of storage and processing methods and usage. These classes provides basic knowledge and skills necessary for the proper implementation of the programs of other classes in later semesters of engineering studies and the master of the technical profile.

Lectures are focused on the practical application of the methods of geoinformatics, but the basic theoretical knowledge is essential here for the correct application of various technologies in the creation, processing and usage of geospatial information.

In lectures, students get acquainted with:

- basic concepts of geoinformation and their mutual relationships,

- the paradigm of geomatics - the scientific and technical disciplines dealing the general aspect of spatial-time geodata,

- types of geoinformation and their corresponding forms of storage,

- methods of obtaining geological geodata - in the field, with archival documents and through infrastructure geoinformatics,

- available geoinformation products used in geological works,

- computer software used for geoinformation, including GIS systems and their interaction with CAD,

- methods of obtaining data for the geology using the services network WMS, WMTS, WFS and WCS.

During exercise, students apply practical methods of geoinformation in work in the field of geology, and in particular to know:

- architecture, work rules, and user interface systems geoinformatics (GIS),

- basic operations performed on the vector data,

- basic operations on raster data (cellular, matrix),

- the processing of the results into a form suitable for publication.

After completing the course (lectures and exercises), student will have basic (theoretical and practical) knowledge of geoinformatics and geomatics, and will know:

- basic concepts of geoinformation and their relationship

- the paradigm of geomatics - the scientific and technical disciplines dealing

the general aspect of spatial-time geodata and technologies to it,

- types of geoinformation and appropriate forms of writing for them,

- available products used in geoinformatics geological works,

- computer software used for geo-information in this GIS systems and their interaction with CAD,

- methods of obtaining data for the geology using the services network WMS, WMTS, WFS and WCS,

- architecture, work rules, and user interface systems geoinformatics (GIS),

- basic operations performed on the vector data,

- basic operations on raster data (cellular, matrix),

- the processing of the results into a form suitable for publication.

Student should participate in every classes. Three excused absences are allowed provided the student completes the unaccomplished work on their own.

One grade is obtained per lecture and exercises. The necessary condition is to pass the exercises (20 points out of 40 possible). After obtaining it, the student proceeds to the colloquium from the lecture from which he can get a maximum of 20 points. The final grade results from the total number of points. In the case of passing a re-test, students re-pass those parts of the subject from which they obtained less than 50% of points. In the case of passing the exercise part, the improvement consists in a test at the computer.