This course guides student to the understanding of the principles of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its integrated application in environmental and mining applications. The acquisition, modelling, analysis and presentation of geodata have been done in such a way as to bring the student in contact with typical geoapplications and is of particular importance for the modern Mining Engineer. The course besides the theoretical lectures runs a semester modular lab project using GIS software tools.
Introduction to GIS, history of GIS, representation of reality, spatial objects and relations, data sources and acquisition methods, spatial models and data structures, fields and entities, topology, 2.5D and 3D modelling, elements of spatial databases, georeferencing and coordinate transformation, principles of spatial analysis, visualization, GIS applications in geosciences.
