Duration
15h Th, 20h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in geography : geomatics and surveying (120 ECTS) | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The chapters of the course are part of the general GIS course (GEOG0238)
1. Mutualization of geographical data
- Geo-spatial data description languages (GML, etc.)
2. Deployment of a GIS in a 3-tier computer architecture
- Distributed GIS and networked GIS
- Service Oriented Architecture
3. GIS-Web Mechanisms
- Client-side application deployment
- Server-side application deployment
4. Geo-spatial Web services
- WMS, WFS, WCS, RWS, WPS
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Overview of the design and development of an enterprise GIS in a client-server-Web environment.
- Understanding of the current research challenges in geomatics
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
- GIS & Project management courses
- Computer network course (or practical knowledges)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Project realization by groups of students:
"A group of students"
- Appointment of a "project manager", responsible for the planning and monitoring of the project and the allocation of tasks and resources within the group.
- Each student member of the group is assigned one or more tasks (design, development, implementation, testing, documentation), including the drafting of the corresponding part of the draft report.
"Project":
- Specifications provided by a "client" external (partner of the Geomatics Unit, ULg service, etc.).
- Allocation of physical resources (PC, network) in collaboration with Marc BINARD, coordinator GITAN platform of the Geomatics Unit.
- Exclusive use of open source software resources.
- Creation of a working prototype meets the specifications in TOTAL AUTONOMY (including timing) by the group of students.
- Presentation of the prototype (June session) in the presence of representatives of partner-author of the project and drafting of documentation for her.
- Writing a project monitoring report for evaluation.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
- 4 lectures (face to face)
- Project (group work) planned and scheduled by the students and an external partner (auteur de projet).
Recommended or required readings
- PDF notes on eCampus server.
- Regularly updated bibliography on eCampus server.
Assessment methods and criteria
Evaluation based on:
- Oral presentation - demonstration of the prototype for the project 40%
- The draft report for the project 30%;
- Documentation of the prototype provided to the partner - author of the project 30%.
Each student within a group is responsible for specific tasks (including oral presentation and writing thereto). Hence the notes may fluctuate within a group of students responsible for a project.
Work placement(s)
Although the projects are carried out in response to external specifications, no implementation is expected outside the own resources of the University of Liège.
Organizational remarks
- Physical resources (PC, network ...) on which must be installed the project-related prototypes are located in the room 4/18 (B5a building - Institute of Physics) and are managed by the platform GITAN (Marc Binard).
- All the software taking part in the prototype must be Open Source.
Contacts
Unit of Geomatics
University of Liège
Agora, 19 allée du 6 Août, B5a
4000 Liège
Professor J.P. Donnay jp.donnay@ulg.ac.be
GITAN platform :
Marc Binard marc.binard@ulg.ac.be