COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GIS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GIS 6008 GIS APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ELECTIVE 1 2 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CEM KINCAL

Offered to

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

Course Objective

It is essential that any GIS application development activity meets user requirements and that it is
on time, in budget and in accordance with quality standards. These goals will be greatly facilitated if a rigorous
software engineering approach is adopted. The basic idea in software engineering is that development is split up
into a series of independent steps which are carried out in sequence

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Basic functions in ArcGIS
2   Programming in Visual Basic for Applications
3   Customize ArcGIS

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Data capturing from primary
2 Data Capture from secondary sources
3 Geodetic datums
4 Map projections
5 Co-ordinate systems
6 Scales, units and transformations
7 Data formats
8 Data Qua
9 Mid-term examination
10 Database Management for GIS
11 GIS Software
12 Customizing ArcGIS
13 Planning the GIS project
14 Analysing Data

Recomended or Required Reading

Bell D, Morrey I and Pugh J (1992) Software engineering: a programming approach. 2nd edn. Prenctice-Hall, New York
2. Chen P P (1976) The entity-relationship model: towards a unified view of data. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 1(1): 9-35
3. Rumbaugh J, Blaha M, Premerlani W, Eddy F, Lorensen W (1991) Object oriented modelling and design Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall
4. ESRI (1994) Paper Prototyping AM/M/GIS. Applications: quality/schedule trade-offs ESRI White Paper ESRI, Redlands

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentations and assignments

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.60


*** 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 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 5 10 50
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 167

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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