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| FBE5009 | Geographical Information Systems | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Çetin CÖMERT | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Fundamentals of GIS, theoretical and practical knowledge on Spatial Analyses. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Define fundamental concepts and technologies of GIS | | | | PO - 2 : | Use GIS software (desktop) | | | | PO - 3 : | design their term project | | | | PO - 4 : | orally defend their term project | | | | PO - 5 : | carry out a lterature search for their term project. | | | | 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), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| GIS Overwiew. Concepts and applications, Graph theory and Topology, Topological data structures, Building topology in a GIS, Database Design in GIS, SQL (Structured Query Language), Spatial-SQL. National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI) Design, INSPIRE, NSDI concepts, standards, Web GIS relation. Multi-criteria decision making, AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process). Spatial Analysis (SA); Overview and BoK (Body of Knowledge), Classification of SA operations, Vector SA; Vector overlay. Raster SA; reclassificiation, overlay, proximity, cost surfaces, accumulated cost, flow accumulation. Network Analyses; representation of networks, Shortest Path, location-allocation. Multi-criteria decision making and optimization in GIS. Modelling dynamic processes, Computational Fluid dynamics and GIS. Spatio-Temporal analyses; Space-time cube. Statistics and GIS; Hot Spot Analyses. Term project. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | GIS; fundamentals, applications and current status trends. Graph theory. Topology and its role in GIS, Topological data structures a | | | Week 2 | Lab Building topology in a GIS software (QGIS) | | | Week 3 | Database Design, Database management systems, data models, relational, E_R, and UML models, , related UKVA, INSPIRE concepts and technologies, Web GIS touch on.
-Multi-criteria decision making, AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process)- | | | Week 4 | Lab-SQL (structured Query Language) applications in PostGIS
-Lab: -Multi-criteria decision making, AHP .- | | | Week 5 | Spatial Analysis (SA); Overview and BoK (Body of Knowledge), Classification of SA operations, Vector SA; Vector overlay. Raster SA; reclassification, overlay, proximity, cost surfaces, accumulated cost, flow accumulation.-1 | | | Week 6 | Spatial Analysis (SA); Overview and BoK (Body of Knowledge), Classification of SA operations, Vector SA; Vector overlay. Raster SA; reclassification, overlay, proximity, cost surfaces, accumulated cost, flow accumulation.-2 | | | Week 7 | Lab: Spatial analyses case study application- avalanche risk analysis. | | | Week 8 | midterm | | | Week 9 | Network Analyses; representation of networks, Shortest Path, location-allocation. | | | Week 10 | Lab: Network Analyses; representation of networks, Shortest Path, location-allocation. | | | Week 11 | review of Multi-criteria decision making and optimization in GIS | | | Week 12 | Modelling dynamic processes, CFD (Computational Fluid dynamics) and GIS; flood modelling. | | | Week 13 | Lab: flood modelling. | | | Week 14 | Statistics and GIS; Hot Spot Analyses.
-Spatio-Temporal analyses; Space-time cube.- | | | Week 15 | Term project presentation and oral exam -1 | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 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. | | | 2 | Fundamental operations in computer-assisted map analysis, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Volume 1, Issue 2 1987 , pages 119-136 | | | |
| 1 | Principles of Geographical Information Systems for Land resources assessment, P.A. Burrough, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 1998 | | | 2 | Geographic Information Systems and Science, Longley P.A., Goodchild M.F., Maguire D.J., Rhind D.W., Willey 2001. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 01/12/2024 | 1 | 20 | | Laboratory exam | 15 | | | 30 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 26/01/2024 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 3 | 5 | 15 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 5 | 1 | 5 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Proje | 2 | 5 | 10 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 5 | 1 | 5 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 79 |
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