OEKB100343 Geo-Informatics


Type
course with continuous assessment
Semester hours
3
Lecturer (assistant)
Bauer, Thomas
Organisation
Geomatics
Offered in
Wintersemester 2025/26
Languages of instruction
Deutsch

Content

Theory:
- Definition: What is a GIS?
- Historic development
- Data models, raster - vector, geometry, attributes, topology
- GIS-software
- Coordinate systems and map projections, georeferencing
- Database management, SQL-query, metadata
- Data analysis: overlay and spatial operators, Map Algebra
- Digital elevation models
- Geodata in Austria
- WebGIS: web services
- Cartography: basics

Project work:
- Building a geodatabase
- Definition of a coordinate system
- Access to web services
- Data acquisition (vector)
- Analysis (Geoprocessing)
- Map layout

Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)

Students can name the components of a geographic information system (GIS) and describe the most important tools in a GIS. Students can name the most important sources of geodata.

Students can integrate different geodata available in different coordinate systems into a GIS, collect data themselves and correlate or analyse it. They can visualise the results they have obtained independently in the form of maps.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.