Module 5: Advanced Methods and Techniques for Geo-data Handling

Course goals

• Have an overview of simple and advanced spatial data models and understand which model serves which purpose
• Be proficient in elementary (query) spatial data operators, in both raster and vector domain
• Understand and be able to set up and carry out spatial computations
• Understand the principles of spatiotemporal modelling in GIS
• Understand, and to some extend apply, the principles of spatial planning support
• Understand how geodata can be made public using information sharing technology developed for the internet
• Have specialized themselves in one of the offered in-depth study topics

Content

• The course continues on where Module 1 (GEO4-GIMA1) left off.
• The course addresses more than Module 1 (GEO4-GIMA1) on the processes behind GI.
• The course will be followed by the application of the contents in Module 6 (GEO4-GIMA6).

1. Spatial analysis
2. Simple and advanced geodata models
3. Geodatabases and their design and use
4. Python programming
5. Spatial-temporal modelling
6. Web-based geodata dissemination

• Letter of acceptance of the master programme Geographical Information Management and Applications
• Knowledge and skills from Module 1 (assumed knowledge)