Geographical Information Systems

Duration

30h Th, 30h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Jean-Paul Donnay

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The plan covers this course as well as the Web-GIS course (GEOG0041) taught the following year
*GIS Design: 1. Information systems in organizations 2. Enterprise-GIS design (connected to GEOG0622 "Project management" course) 3. UML (Unified Modeling Language) for geo-spatial data *GIS & DBMS: 4. Vector legacy systems 5. Vector spatial DBMS 6. Raster data in GIS & DBMS 7. Document databases (NoSQL) & geo-spatial data *GIS Implementation: 8. Desktop GIS & DBMS [ 9. GIS deployment in a 3-tiers computer architecture //(GEOG0041) ] [ 10. Geographic data description languages //(GEOG0041) ] 11. Geographic data sharing 12. ETL and spatial indexing *Application Development: 13. Analysis of GIS processing 14. Spatial vector and raster operators 15. Modelers and scripts [ 16. Client-side application deployment (GEOG0041) ] [ 17. Server-side application deployment (GEOG0041) ] [ 18. Service Oriented Architecture: Geo Web Services //(GEOG0041) ] *Spatial Decision Support: 19. Scenario development by multicriteria analysis 20. Introduction to Business Intelligence with geo-spatial data

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

- Design and implementation of a GIS in an organization - Data and process modelling - Applications in vector and raster formats

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

- Databases
- Cartography
- Spatial Analysis

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

• GIS design in UML
• Implementation of a spatial database management system
• Use of Case Tools and ETL
• Integrated exercise: from the design of the data model to the creation of a spatial enabled database
• Development of applications by graphic modelers and Python scripts
• Exercises dealing with spatial decision support in vector and raster modes

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

- Sessions of 3 or 4 hours,  - 2d semester, intensive sessions (3 / week) - Some lectures are given by scientifical staff

Recommended or required readings

- Slides in PDF format available on eCampus sever
- Mandatory reading: Worboys M.F. & Duckham M. (2004) GIS : A Computing Perspective, Boca Raton (FL) : CRC Press.

Assessment methods and criteria

- Practical: 40% --Practical works: during the year 15% - Practival exam: exercises on computer 25% - Theory: 60% -- Oral exam
Success is conditionned by the success in both exams (theory and practical). In case of failure, partial exemption (theory or practical) coud be given.
Attendance to courses and exercise sessions is mandatory to present exams.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Most of the software used for the exercises are Open Source. They can be downloaded by students on their computers, but the exercises are necessarily carried out on the university's computers (not students' laptops).

Contacts

Unit of Geomatics University of Liège, Agora, 19 Allée du 6 Août, 4000 Liège (building B5a) Secretaryship : Tel : 04/366.57.42 Fax : 04/366.56.93
Professor Jean-Paul Donnay jp.donnay@ulg.ac.be Assistant : Romain Neuville romain.neuville@ulg.ac.be

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