| TNK055 | Geographical Information Systems for Transportation
, 6 ECTS credits. /Geografiska informationssystem för trafik och transporter/ |
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Area of Education: Technology Subject area: Communication and Transport Engineering |
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| Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): G1
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| Aim: The aim is to give an introduction to geographic information technology as well as deeper knowledge about the GIS as a tool for engineers. After the course the students should - be familiar with basic geographic information technology and understand the difference between ordinary and geographic information systems - be familiar with the most important application areas for GIS within planning for traffic and transportation - understand how GIS-applications are designed and be able to create an application using a GIS-program -be able to work independently with computers from written laboratory instructions and developed their skills to present the result in clear and well structured reports |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) No special Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding. |
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| Supplementary courses: TNK064 Positioning and GIS |
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| Organisation: The course contains lectures, small projects and laboratory work. The two latter are obligatory |
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| Course contents: Basic concepts. Applications for GIS. Geographic databases. Hardware and software. Data capture, storing, processing and presentation. Cartography. GIS analysis. Practical excercises with GIS-softwares. Simple system specification and development. Applications for transportation |
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| Course literature: Heywood, Cornelius, Carver, 2006: An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems. Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0130611980 ESRI, 2002: Getting started with ArcGIS. |
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| Written examination Laboratory work |
2 p 2 p |
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3 ECTS 3 ECTS |
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Course language is English. Department offering the course: ITN. Director of Studies: Clas Rydergren Examiner: Anders Wellving Link to the course homepage at the department Course Syllabus in Swedish |
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