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| YBS4010 | Geographic Information Systems | 3+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Arş. Gör. Cemre YILMAZ | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Learning basic concepts of GIS, technologies and spatial analysis theoretically and practically. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | | 1,4 | 1,3, | | LO - 2 : | | 1,4 | 1,3, | | 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 | | |
| GIS basic concepts and applications; Introduction to GIS, GIS applications, historical development and current studies.
Explaining the basic concepts about the map.
Topology; Topological data representations, establishing topology, need for topology in GIS.
Data models in GIS.
Data sources in GIS. Digitization methods. Manual digitization, semi-automatic and automatic digitization.
Spatial Analysis; Classification of spatial analysis.
Raster operations; Simple and weighted proximity, weighted sum, Surface analysis
Spatial Analysis: Multi-Criteria Decision Making.
Lab-Explaining basic tools of GIS software. (QGIS open source software)
Lab- Basic operations in QGIS; Creating and editing spatial databases.
Lab- Basic operations in QGIS; Spatial query, "join table by attribute".
Lab- Map creation, symbolization, and layout creation in QGIS.
Lab- Creating population density map in QGIS.
Lab- Performing overlay and buffer analysis in QGIS.
Lab- Multiple criteria analysis in QGIS.
Lab- Project- Use of GIS in epidemic disease management (Case study: Covid-19 pandemic) .
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