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

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Indústria, inovação e infraestruturas - Construir infraestrutura resiliente, promover a industrialização inclusiva e sustentável, e fomentar a inovação.

Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

Ação climática - Tomar medidas urgentes para combater a mudança climática e seus impactos (*).

Proteger a vida terrestre - Proteger, recuperar e promover o uso sustentável dos ecossistemas terrestres, gerir de forma sustentável as florestas, combater a desertificação, deter e reverter a degradação da Terra e deter a perda da biodiversidade.

Learning Goals

- Understand the potential of technologies for automatic manipulation of georeferenced data in geographic studies.
- Create and execute a project to create and process basic geography information using GIS tools.
- Develop skills for autonomous learning of digital mapping software and geographic information systems.
- Conceptualise representation solutions for multi-scale analyses using computer-aided design software and geographic information systems.
- Develop critical skills in the selection, acquisition, and editing of cartography for different audiences.

1. Introduction to geographic representation: from cartography to GIS, evolution of digital cartography, expansion of geographic information system concepts (expansion of UC content in Cartography)
2. Designing a digital map: graphic representations, projection systems and georeferencing, digitising information (expansion of UC content in Cartography)
3. Presentation of the basic characteristics of vector and raster data
4. Basic notions of spatial databases and applied digital cartography tools
5. Practical application and use of GIS software: symbology, digitization of points, lines and polygons; creation and editing of shapefiles; identification and selection by attributes and location; creation of layouts; data management; georeferencing; notions of databases; spatial analysis.

Teaching Methods

The theoretical classes will introduce the themes and knowledge that will be developed in an applied way in the theoretical-practical classes. Each week a different topic will be addressed and developed, and students will carry out practical exercises during theoretical-practical classes.

Assessment

Evaluation methods:
1) Continuous evaluation composed by 1 theoretical-practical test (60%) and 1 individual practical work (40%).
2) Alternatively, the assessment can be obtained by taking a final theoretical-practical exam (100%).

Any plagiarism detected in the work submitted, from work by other authors or from CHATGTP or other artificial intelligence text production support, will result in a zero mark for the work in question and the impossibility of submitting further assessment elements for the course unit (Academic Regulations in force at the institution in question; Art. 119 in the case of the University of Évora).