CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS
cod. 1005853

Academic year 2016/17
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Informatica (INF/01)
Field
Discipline informatiche
Type of training activity
Basic
67 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Integrated course unit module: PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS

Learning objectives

The main purpose of the course is the graded learning of the GIS (Geographic Information System) GRASS (Geographical Resources Analysis Support System) an open source pubblic domain system particularly eligible for an educational use.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Construction of a shell script.
Digitizing environment: the v.digit command.
Data importing.

Full programme

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Bibliography

S.Perego .: "Cartografia . Lettura delle Carte Topografiche (2004).


GIS:
A. Clerici: “GRASS7.0 (per Windows) Manuale pratico introduttivo”. Agosto 2016. Dati: Spearfish60_grass7
Manuale: www.cler.unipr.it/Didattica/GRASS7.0_agosto2016.zip

A. Clerici: “ Vector Digitizer (GRASS7.0 per Windows). Manuale pratico introduttivo”. Agosto 2016. Dati: Appennino.
Manuale: www.cler.unipr.it/Didattica/vector_digitizer_7.0_agosto2016.zip
Dati: www.cler.unipr.it/Didattica/Appennino.zip.

Teaching methods

The main purpose of the course is the graded learning of the GIS (Geographic Information System) GRASS (Geographical Resources Analysis Support System) an open source pubblic domain system particularly eligible for an educational use.

Assessment methods and criteria

Execution of an exercise in order to assess the level of knowledge of the GRASS GIS.

Other information

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