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  • Welcome to the course!

    The schedule for the course is shown below. Learning sessions will be hosted by University lecturer Jussi Nikander, unless noted otherwise in the description of the session. The exercise sessions will be hosted by the course teaching assistant, Mr. Jan Pisl.

    For the requirements how to pass the course, please consult the slides for the first learning session, available in the Materials page.

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      Learning session Zoom meeting

      The course uses Zoom meetings for learning sessions. You can access the meeting room from this link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69084654884.

      The lectures will not be recorded.

    • The schedule for the course

      Date

      Time

      Topic

      Wed 28.10

      14-16

      Introduction to the course and fundamental spatial concepts

      Thu 29.10

      10-12

      Modeling and representing geospatial information on computers

      Wed 4.11

      14-16

      Basic data structures and algorithms, simple spatial problems for algorithms

      Thu 5.11

      10-12

      Polygon networks, polygon topology, Voronoi and Delaunay

      Wed 11.11

      14-16

      Raster data 1: fundamentals, map algebra, raster data storage and indexing

      Thu 12.11

      10-12

      Raster data 2: shortest paths in raster data, viewshed calculation, spatial data subdivisions

      Wed 18.11

      14-16

      Spatial graph problems

      Thu 19.11

      10-12

      Range searching and windowing

      Wed 25.11

      14-16

      GIS databases, spatial data in databases, GIS Software

      Thu 26.11

      10-12

      Examples and experience from practice

      Wed 2.12

      14-16

      3d visualization (by Petri Rönnholm)

      Thu 3.12

      10-12

      In reserve

      Tue 8.12

      9-12

      		 EXAM, on-line


      In addition to the lectures, there will be 5 rounds of exercises on the course. The preliminary schedule for the exercise sessions is shown below. The exercise sessions will be held on-line (environment to be announced later). The sessions will be mainly held by teaching assistant Jan Pisl.

      Date

      Time

      Topic

      Notes

      Tue 27.10

      10-12

      No session

       

      Fri 30.10

      10-12

      Round 1

       

      Tue 3.11

      10-12

      Round 1

      Round 1 DL on 4.11

      Fri 6.11

      10-12

      Round 2

       

      Tue 10.11

      10-12

      Round 2

      Round 2 DL on 11.11

      Fri 13.11

      10-12

      Round 3

       

      Tue 17.11

      10-12

      Round 3

      Round 3 DL on 18.11

      Fri 20.11

      10-12

      Round 4

       

      Tue 24.11

      10-12

      Round 4

      Round 4 DL on 25.11

      Fri 27.11

      10-12

      Round 5

       

      Tue 1.12

      10-12

      Round 5

      Round 5 DL on 2.12

      Fri 4.12

      10-12

      No session

       

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    Exercise sessions

    The course exercise sessions will be held in MS Teams. We have created a Team (GIS-E1070 Theories and Technicues, fall 2020) team for this. In order to join the team, you can either download the MS Teams software to your own computer or use the web version at https://teams.microsoft.com/. Log into teams using your Aalto account.

    In teams we have a channel (Queue for assistance) which can be used during exercise sessions to ask for detailed help (via chat or video call) from the course staff. You can also ask for advice on the general channel at any time. We'll follow the channel and answer as soon as we can, but you can also receive peer advice there.

  • On-line exams

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