Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Geoportals and geospatial services (17.GI501)

Native organizations units: Sub-department for Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Geodesy and Geoinformatics (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Geoinformatika
ECTS	6

To acquire basic and applied knowledge in the field of Geodesy, Geomatics and Geoinformatics. To acquire basic and applied knowledge in the field of application of IT, Portals and Geoportals in Geoinformatics and Geodesy.

Acquired knowledge is used in professional courses, as well as in the recognition and in solving the engineering problems.

Lecture content: Mechanisms for data exchange in space. XML, GML, LandXML. Scheme of geometry, scheme of topology, scheme of topography. Exchange documents. Standards for metadata – ISO 19115 - SDI – spatial infrastructure. Geoportals. Architecture of geoportals. Practice content: Practical application of presented concepts from lectures. Implementation of geoportal. Customization of geoportal and implementation of custom client web applications.

Teaching forms: lectures, computer practice, consultations, individual elaboration of obligatory tasks. Knowledge evaluation: guided and individual elaboration of obligatory tasks; seminar paper; written partial exam; final examination – oral form.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Jones, C.B.	Geographical Information Systems and Computer Cartography	1997	Longman, Singapore	English
Lake, R., et al.	Geography Mark-Up Language (GML)	2004	John Wiley&Sons, Chippenham	English