COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GIS ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GIS 6018 GIS ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURE 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

PROFESSOR DOCTOR RECEP ALP KUT

Offered to

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

Course Objective

Over the past twenty-five years or so many people have become aware of the benefits which accrue from organising and integrating data geographically. Indeed, such has been the success of this approach that Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have been applied to an extremely wide range of application areas. In order to satisfy the requirements of this diverse community, many GIS software developers have adopted the strategy of developing a generic suite of multi-purpose software routines, together with some type of customisation programming capability. This allows core GIS software developers to concentrate effort on engineering robust and reliable generic routines. The task of creating specific-purpose, enduser (or vertical application) customisations is usually seen as the domain of application developers. These application developers may belong to the core software developer's organisation, the user's organisation, or some independent organization.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Basic functions in ArcGIS.
2   Programming in Visual Basic for Applications
3   Customize ArcGIS
4   ArcObjects Object model

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 projects

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


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 15 15
Preparing assignments 5 5 25
Preparing presentations 2 10 20
Design Project 1 25 25
Midterm 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 193

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.324244232234
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