Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Spatial information systems (17.IZMI51)

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Information Systems Engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Information-Communication Systems
ECTS	4

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

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Coloquium exam	No	No	20.00
Theoretical part of the exam	No	Yes	50.00
Computer excersise defence	Yes	Yes	10.00
Computer excersise defence	Yes	Yes	10.00
Computer excersise defence	Yes	Yes	10.00
Term paper	Yes	Yes	20.00