Web GIS : principles and applications, Part A

Duration

15h Th, 15h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Jean-Paul Donnay

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

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, GeoJSON, 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@uliege.be
GITAN platform : Marc Binard marc.binard@uliege.be

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