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| GEOD208 | Computer Aided Mapping Design | 3+1+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOMATICS ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures and 1 hour of practicals per week | | Lecturer | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Gülten KARA | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To establish an understanding on the technologies of Computer aided mapping, and on the concepts of vector and raster data representations and related data structures. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | understand base concepts of CAMD(computer aided mapping design) and its technology. | 1 | 1 | | LO - 2 : | do the transfer data from analogue environment to the digital background. | 5 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | understand base subjects such as data structures, vector and raster representations in theoretical and practical ways. | 1,5 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | improve the skills of verbal communication. | 7 | 1 | | LO - 5 : | understand current developments in the field of CAMD. | 10 | 1 | | LO - 6 : | use software in the field of CAMD. | 11,12 | 4 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Computer aided mapping (CAM) technology; general concepts. Hardware for CAM; Computer systems, software and hardware subsystems, hardcopy output devices. Computer networks. Graphical output devices. Raster and vector display system concepts; Resolution, scaling, colour display systems. Data conversion; Manual, semi and full automated digitizing. Raster-to-vector conversion. General purpose data structures. File structures. Sequential and random access file organizations. Vector data structures; topologic data structures. Vector data formats. Raster data structures. Quad trees. Raster data formats. Comparing raster and vector data structures. Spatial data interchange. Digital Elevation Models. Map production in CAM; Cartographic output design and symbolization. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Computer Aided Mapping, Geographic Information System concepts Database management Systems, Geographic Information System concepts.
| | | Week 2 | Computer systems and subsystems. communication technologies and computer networks.
| | | Week 3 | Spatial data conversion; semi- and full-automated digitizing. | | | Week 4 | Spatial data conversion; semi- and full-automated digitizing. | | | Week 5 | Data structures and file organizations. | | | Week 6 | Vector representation and related data structures. | | | Week 7 | Vector representation and related data structures.
Raster representation and related data structures. | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | A comparison of raster and vector data representations in terms of analytical operations for the understanding of both representations. | | | Week 10 | Cartographic output design and symbolization. | | | Week 11 | Spatial data exchange. | | | Week 12 | Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and surface analyses. | | | Week 13 | Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and surface analyses. | | | Week 14 | Developing application programs in GIS software. | | | Week 15 | Lab Exam | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Principles of Geographical Information Systems for Land resources assessment, P.A., Burrough, Oxford University Press, 1998. | | | |
| 1 | An Introduction to Digital maping, S.E. Masry, Y.C. Lee, Lecture Notes, Department of Surveying Engineering, University of new Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, June 1988. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | | 1,30 | 20 | | Oral exam | 14 | | 1 | 30 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 1,30 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Arasınav | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Uygulama | 2 | 8 | 16 | | Proje | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Total work load | | | 125 |
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