Cartography

Code: GEO13360L

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.

Learning Goals

This course aims to equip students with fundamental concepts, methods, and techniques in general and thematic cartography, used as tools in planning, teaching and research in human, physical, and environmental geography. Students will learn basic graphical concepts for map design and geospatial database interpretation, understand key cartographic documents and databases, learn to use appropriate methods and techniques for communicating results, create thematic maps and databases, and apply cartographic knowledge in other courses.

Students will develop the following skills: understanding key characteristics of cartographic science and techniques, their historical evolution, and current applications at various scales; concepts of graphic and cartographic expression for map and spatial database interpretation; critically using maps and spatial databases in geography and territorial studies; and knowing the main types of cartographic documents and databases used.

(1) Cartography and Maps;
(2) Sources of cartographic information;
(3) Scales, generalisation and symbolisation
(4) Thematic maps;
(5) Introduction to Digital Cartography;
(6) Team project - follow-up and mid-term evaluation;
(7) Cartographic projections and coordinate systems;
(8) Point, linear and spatial map representations;
(9) Introduction to GIS and tools (e.g., QGIS, SAGA?);
(10) Introduction to Modelling and spatial databases;
(11) Topography and hydrography;
(12) Landscape elements and units;
(13) Revisions and clarification of doubts;
(14) Team project - follow-up and advanced assessment II;
(15) Presentation of final work in teams; and
(16) UC final exam

Teaching Methods

The theoretical component will be taught using presentations that incorporate text, images, videos, and other supporting materials. Students will also analyse paper and digital maps, satellite images, digital and spatial databases, scientific articles and other relevant documentation. The practical component will include quantitative and qualitative exercises where students will apply the theoretical concepts learned. In the digital cartography classes, students will have a first contact with GIS tools (e.g. QGIS, ArcGis) which will be explored in greater depth in the ?Spatial Analysis? course. This first contact with GIS tools is intended to bridge the gap between cartographic theory and the automation of processes in this field.

Assessment

Continuous assessment: (1) Group project + presentation (50%+10%), (2) Test (theory) (30%) , e (3) Participation and attendance (10%)

Note: approval requires compulsory attendance at 75% of the classes, including 100% of the project classes, except for admissible justification.

Assessment by exa: (1) Theory component - 30% e (2) Practical component - 70%

Any plagiarism that is detected from the work of other authors or from the CHATGTP, or any other text production technology, results in a mark of zero for the work in question and the impossibility of presenting further assessment elements in the Course Unit (Art. 119 of the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora).

* Students who have passed the practical component in continuous assessment may only take the theory exam (30 per cent). All other students must take both the theory (30%) and practical (70%) exams on the same day.