2023

Systems of Geographical Information in Geosciences

Name: Systems of Geographical Information in Geosciences
Code: GEO00780L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Geography

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Expected outcomes: understanding the potential of the technologies of automatic handling of georeferenced
data in studies in the field of geosciences.
Ability to create and execute a project which includes the basic treatment of Geoscientific information using
GIS tools.

Contents

GIS and the sciences.
Graphical representations; Projection Systems; Georeferencing; Scanning information.
Computer georeferenced data.
Symbols and Labels in GIS
Creation of Layouts
Scanning of points and lines.
Creation of a project
Georeferencing:
Digitizing polygons
Creating layouts
Information search the tools and basic SQL Databases • Rules for creating maps
Small GIS project.

Teaching Methods

The lectures are only a quarter of classes, giving preference to a theoretical and practical concepts that will be
introduced and explained, based on exercises that students have to perform in the classroom, completing the
non finished parts of THE exercises at home, once properly trained and explained.
The rating corresponds to the exercises performed (continuous assessment), a theory test and delivery of the
final project report.

Teaching Staff

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