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| Onderwijs: | Het vak INFOMGEODP wordt in 2012/2013 niet aangeboden. | |
| Onderwijs: | Het is nog niet zeker of en zo ja in welke periode van 2012/2013 dit vak wordt aangeboden. | |
| Nota bene: | Er is geen recente vakbeschrijving beschikbaar. Onderstaande tekst is een oude vakbeschrijving uit collegejaar 2011/2012 | |
| Inhoud: | Geographic data processing is about the techniques needed to make software like geographic information systems and vehicle navigation systems work. The emphasis is on practical, algorithmic techniques, as opposed to theoretical, algorithmic techniques. | |
| Literatuur: | kan veranderen! Slides from the lectures, and possibly book chapters as background reading material. | |
| Werkvorm: | Lectures, combined with a project. Projects are done in pairs or triples, and consist of the study and initial development of the solution to a geographic problem (possibly from automated cartography or spatial data analysis). Two written hand-ins must be made throughout the course that contain the observations and ideas that lead to a solution to the problem. The solutions will also be presented by the students in class. No implementation will be done. | |
| Toetsvorm: | Written exam (50%) and project (50%). Both items must be evaluated with at least a 5. | |
| Inspanningsverplichting voor aanvullende toets: | Om aan de aanvullende toets te mogen meedoen moet de oorspronkelijke uitslag minstens 4 zijn. | |
| Beschrijving: | Geographic data processing occurs for many reasons in geographic information systems. The acquired data (through LiDAR, satellite images, map digitizing) must be cleaned up and processed into useful representations, the tasks that users want to perform must be done by combining spatial data, and to visualize the results of a geographic analysis, automated cartography techniques are needed. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are elaborate software packages for the input, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of geographic data. With analysis of data we mean the possibilities for combining different thematic data sets or map layers (like population density and political preference), or generating best solutions (for the planning of a new airport), or modelling and computing consequences (for example, of global warming). Geographic Information Systems are use by geographers, politicians, geologists, civil engineers, etc. In this course the emphasis is on representation, algorithms, and cartographic computations. Geographic data processing is also common in vehicle navigation systems, for example to compute shortest routes. There are a lot of companies that deal with geographic data. GMT master thesis projects have been done (in the past) at TomTom, QPS, Vicrea, Logica Nieuwegein, NLR, IT Works, TNO, Cadastral office, ... | |