Course: National Spatial Information Infrastructure

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Course title National Spatial Information Infrastructure
Course code KGI/PGSPI
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 15
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Voženílek Vít, prof. RNDr. CSc.
  • Konečný Milan, doc. RNDr. CSc.
Course content
The conception, technology, content, legislation, political and economical aspects, safety and ethical aspects are taken into account. The important part is the situation in the EU (E-ESDI) in the global scale and also the situation in the Czech Republic (NGII ČR). The science agency of the making NSDI, in the condition of the smals states, is judged. The content of the lecture is: Information infrastructure, space data infrastructure, portals, theis specification and needs, GI and their need in NGII, sources of GI, proccesing of GI and their cartographical interpretation - global, europe and czech space data infrastructure, the main purpose of the cartography, GIS and DPZ in the national geoinformatical infrastructure of the Czech Republic - The science agency of the making NSDI, in the condition of the smals states. Special example will be the Czech Republic.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
Learning outcomes
The subject deals with the tasks of the creation and use of the space informatical infrastructure.
Evaluation Evaluate the particular methods and principles, explain the aspects and results concerning the given issue, integrate the knowledge, predict the solutions, evaluate the results and outcomes.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam

Student has to prove the knowledge of the subject topics.
Recommended literature
  • Gore A. (1998). Digital Earth: Understanding our Planet in the 21st century, speech delivered at the California Science Centre. Los Angeles, 02/02/98.
  • Konecny, Milan - Stanek, Karel. (2001). Local Internet Portal of Cartographic Knowledge. 132-140. In: Vol. 1. Proceedings on Mapping 21st Century. The 20th International Cartographic Conference. ICC2001 Beijing, China.
  • Konečný M. (2002). Digitální země Čína. Deklarace o Digitální planetě Zemi. 48-51. In: GeoInfo č. 1/2000. Computer Press a.s.
  • Konečný M. (2001). Globální prostorové datové projekty: úloha GIS a kartografie. Výroční konference České geografické společnosti: Česká geografie v období rozvoje informačních tech.
  • Konečný, Milan - Staněk, Karel. (2001). SDI in Czech Republic: Portal Age. 51-56. In: Proceedings on 4th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science "GI in Europe: Integrative, Interoperable, Interactive. Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Konečný, Milan. (2001). ICA Statement on SDI and Cartography. Proceedings on 5th Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference. 21 - 25 May 2001. Cartagena, Colombia.
  • Konečný, Milan. (1999). The Digital Earth:Spatial Data Infrastructures from Local to Global Concept. Beijing, China : Chief Guanhua Xu and Yuntai Chen.


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