Selected chapters of Modern cartography | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Selected chapters of Modern cartography (17.DGI005)

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

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

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Geoinformatika
ECTS	10

Acquiring new and applied knowledge in the field of Cartography, Geoinformatics and Web Cartography. The aim of this course is to deepen and integrate knowledge in the field of Cartography and Geoinformatics, to enable students to understand and apply modern methods of analysis and cartographic visualisation.

The acquired knowledge is used in professional subjects, in the formulation and in solving cartographic and other geoinformatic problems.

Infrastructure of geospatial data. ISO standards. Interoperability and interoperability requirements. Database Modeling and UML. Design of cartographic products. Model and cartographic generalization. Cartographic information systems and the Internet. Formatting of Internet cards: resolution, colors, text and symbols, formats, file size and loading time. Animation in cartography. Visualization of geo-data. Criteria for estimation of projection quality. Best and ideal cartographic projections.

Lectures. Consultations. Internet. Research and study work. Projected task.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Kraak, M. J., & Ormeling, F.	Cartography: Visualization of Spatial Data	2011	Guilford Press, New York, USA	English
Zeiler, M.	Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guideto Geodatabase Design. Second Ed.	2010	ESRI Press, Redlands, USA	English
Tyner, Judith	Principles of Map Design	2010	Guilford Press, New York, USA	English
MacEachren, A. M., & Taylor, D. R. F. (Eds.)	Visualization in Modern Cartography	2013	Elsevier	English