Syllabus
Presentation of the concept of Geoinformatics based on supply and demand of geospatial data and information. Overview of supporting technologies as data acquisition, ICT, visualisation, overview of institutional issues.
Types of products such as images from airborne and spaceborne platforms, hard copy maps, geospatial data and data production integration. Geospatial data services. Infrastructure and processes to deliver these products and services (the faculty common database projects).
Introduction into Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) concepts.
Cases from application domains of geospatial data products and services – essay assignment
Typical Geoinformatics related GIS and RS topics possibly acting as a basis for the diploma thesis study.
Revisit of the cases. Panel discussion on geoinformatics concept.