2025

SIGS in Geosciences

Name: SIGS in Geosciences
Code: GEO02684L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Geosciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

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

Graphical representations
Computer georeferenced data.
raster and vector data;
File Organization;
data types: points, lines and polygons.
Symbols and Labels in GIS
Creation of Layouts:
Use of the Arc Catalog
Creation of Shapefiles
Definition of projection systems
Creation of the fields in Shapefiles
Scanning of points and lines.
Tools of the zoom and movement
Creation of a project
Define the projection systems
Menu Editor
Tools to edit a theme vector
Creating and editing symbols
Single symbols
Symbols for the categories (points, lines and polygons)
Layer Files type.
Georeferencing:
Principles of operation
Transformation of the XCS files, txt, dst in Shapefile
Use of the tool Georeferencing
Digitizing polygons
Isolated polygons
Adjacent polygons
Creating layouts
The essential elements of a

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.