COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WEB BASED GIS TECHNOLOGY AND MAPPING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GIS 6014 WEB BASED GIS TECHNOLOGY AND MAPPING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MUHAMMED AYDOĞAN

Offered to

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM)
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Geographical Information Systems (Non-Thesis)

Course Objective

An online or web-based GIS system is simply that, a mapping system you can use on the web. These systems provide data that go beyond your farm operation and provide data at the county, state and national levels. The enefit from using these tools is that you don't need to purchase stand-alone software. You can either download a viewer or use a web browser to access online web maps. You can overlay several data layers, make measurements ie, acres, feet), obtain data, display, and print maps. However, many of these online GIS systems are designed for specific purposes and are limited to the data that it represents. In many cases you are not able to download data to your own software or add your own data through the online GIS. In the future, there will be more services that can allow you to add your own data. Since these tools rely on the Internet it requires fast bandwidth to refresh and isplay maps adequately on your computer. This can be a large drawback for rural communities with limited bandwidth capabilities. In some cases, the map will not even display. Some examples of online GIS systems include county and engineering offices for putting up real estate parcel and tax information.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   offers theoretic background for a better understanding of the concepts of Internet GIS
2   teaches how Internet GIS works, the different architecture models and the state of art of the Internet GIS technology.
3   offers hands-on experience to use Internet GIS programs to gain necessary skills to work with Internet GIS programs.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Course Overview and Introduction 1. Evolution of GIS technology 2. What is Internet GIS 3. Why do we need Internet GIS 4. Introduction to Internet GIS and Mobile GIS 5. Exploring Internet GIS sites
2 Networking Fundamentals of Internet GIS 1. How does the computer networking work 2. Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model 3. Physical communication mechanisms 4. Local area networks 5. Wide area networks
3 Client/Server Computing and Distributed Component Frameworks 1. Client/server Concepts 2. Client/Server Architecture Models 3. Distributed Component Frameworks 4. A Dynamic Architecture for Distributed GIServices
4 The Evolution of Internet GIS: Web Mapping 1. The Development History of Distributed GIS 2. Organizations and Standards 3. Static Web Mapping 4. Interactive Web Mapping
5 Map Mashups 1. What is Map Mashup 2. How does it work 3. Applications of Map Mashups
6 Distributed GIS 1. Architecture Models of Distributed GIS 2. Components and function Requirements for A Single-site Distributed GIS 3. Enterprise Distributed GIS 4. LEGO-like Dynamic GIServices Architecture 5. System Implementation of Distributed GIS
7 Standard Development 1. Standards of Internet GIS from OGC 2. Standards from ISO 3. Metadata standard
8 XML and GML Applications 1. What is metadata 2. What is XML 3. XML Applications 4. Geography Markup Language
9 Mid-term examination
10 ESRI GIS Servers 1. Introduction to ESRI Web Server 2. ArcGIS Server Architecture
11 Mobile GIS 1. The Business Case of Mobile GIS 2. General System Architecture of Mobile GIS 3. Samples of Mobile GIS Software Packages 4. Applications of Mobile GIS 5. The Future of Mobile GIS on WAP and PDA
12 Quality of Service and Security Issues in the Development of Internet GIS 1. Performance 2. Security 3. Scalability
13 Lab: Student Presentation One: Project design framework
14 Active Server Pages (Readings to be assigned at the class)

Recomended or Required Reading

Zhong-Ren Peng and Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Internet GIS: Distributed Geographic Information Services for the Internet and Wireless Networks, New York: John Wiley & Sons, March 2003, available at the Third Coast Design bookstore.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 PRJ PROJECT
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.40 + PRJ * 0.30


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 5 5 25
Preparing presentations 2 10 20
Design Project 1 25 25
Midterm 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 202

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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