GIS-E1070 - Theories and Techniques in GIS D, Lecture, 2.11.2021-14.12.2021

Topic outline

• Welcome to the course!
  The information for the Fall 2021 edition of the GIS-E1070 Theories and techniques in GIS -course will be added here before the beginning of Period II studies. The primary teacher for the course will be university lecturer Jussi Nikander (firstname.lastname@aalto.fi).
  

  Some preliminary information:

  • First event on the course will be the introductory lecture on November 3rd at 14-16 (2-4 pm)
  • The course will be held mostly on-line according to current Aalto ENG guidelines for teaching
  • We will explore the option to have one of the two weekly exercise sessions to be held both on-line and on-campus; details will be given later, and at the moment we cannot guarantee anything
  • In order to do well on the course, you should have passed GIS-E1030 Introduction To Spatial Methods AND know how to code using the python language. Familiarity with the arcpy library is recommended
  • Access to the ArcGIS Pro software is also strongly recommended (You can make do with other tools, but then we cannot provide you with the same level of support)

  More information will be added later. Welcome to the course!
  Jussi
  

  • The schedule for the course

    Date	Time	Topic
    Wed 3.11	14-16	Introduction to the course and fundamental spatial concepts
    Thu 4.11	10-12	Modeling and representing geospatial information on computers
    Wed 10.11	14-16	Basic data structures and algorithms, simple spatial problems for algorithms
    Thu 11.11	10-12	Polygon networks, polygon topology, Voronoi and Delaunay
    Wed 17.11	14-16	Raster data 1: fundamentals, map algebra, raster data storage and indexing
    Thu 18.11	10-12	Raster data 2: shortest paths in raster data, viewshed calculation, spatial data subdivisions
    Wed 24.11	14-16	Spatial graph problems
    Thu 25.11	10-12	Range searching and windowing
    Wed 1.12	14-16	GIS databases, spatial data in databases, GIS Software
    Thu 2.12	10-12	3d visualization (by Petri Rönnholm)
    Wed 8.12	14-16	Examples and experience from practice
    Thu 9.12	10-12	In reserve
    Tue 14.12	9-12	EXAM, (will be held 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).
    

    Date	Time	Topic	Notes
    Tue 2.11	10-12	No session
    Fri 5.11	10-12	Round 1 (on-line)
    Tue 9.11	10-12	Round 1 (U351 + on-line)	Round 1 DL on 10.11
    Fri 12.11	10-12	Round 2 (on-line)
    Tue 16.11	10-12	Round 2 (U351 + on-line)	Round 2 DL on 17.11
    Fri 19.11	10-12	Round 3 (on-line)
    Tue 23.11	10-12	Round 3 (U351 + on-line)	Round 3 DL on 24.11
    Fri 26.11	10-12	Rounds 4 & 5 (on-line)
    Tue 30.11	10-12	Rounds 4 & 5 (on-line)	Round 4 DL on 1.12
    Fri 3.12	10-12	Rounds 4 & 5 (on-line)
    Tue 7.12	10-12	Rounds 4 & 5 (on-line)	Round 5 DL on 8.12
    Fri 10.12	10-12	All remaining exercises, final session (on-line)

    
    

    
    

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