Topic outline

  • Welcome to the course!

    The information for the Fall 2023 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 October 25th at 14-16 (2-4 pm)
    • The course will be held on campus, lectures will be recorded
    • 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 useful
    • We are planning to use the ArcGIS Online cloud environment on the course. All students will be given access to Aalto organization in ArcGIS Online at the beginning of the course. 
    • The course schedule can be seen below. The schedule is still open to changes until the first learning session on the course. After the first session students will be informed of any changes in the schedule through the Annoucements forum.
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    • The schedule for the course

      Date

      Time

      Topic

      Wed 25.10

      14-16

      Introduction to the course and fundamental spatial concepts

      Thu 26.10

      10-12

      Modeling and representing geospatial information on computers

      Wed 1.11

      14-16

      GIS databases, spatial data in databases, GIS Software (lecture will be held on-line)

      Thu 2.11

      10-12

      Basic data structures and algorithms, simple spatial problems for algorithms

      Wed 8.11

      14-16

      Polygon networks, polygon topology, Voronoi and Delaunay (lecture will be held on-line)

      Thu 9.11

      10-12

      Spatial graph problems

      Wed 15.11

      14-16

      Range searching and windowing

      Thu 16.11

      10-12

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

      Wed 22.11

      14-16

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

      Thu 23.11

      10-12

      3d visualization (by Petri Rönnholm)

      Wed 29.11

      14-16

      Examples and experience from practice (video recording due to scheduling conflict)

      Thu 30.11

      10-12

      In reserve (no lecture unless otherwise announced)

      Thu 7.12

      13-16

      		 EXAM (preliminary schedule)


      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.

      Date

      Time

      Topic

      Notes

      Tue 24.10

      10-12

      No session

       

      Fri 27.10

      10-12

      Round 1

       

      Tue 31.10

      10-12

      Round 1

      Round 1 DL on 1.11

      Fri 3.11

      10-12

      Round 2

       

      Tue 7.11

      10-12

      Round 2

      Round 2 DL on 8.11

      Fri 10.11

      10-12

      Round 3

       

      Tue 14.11

      10-12

      Round 3

      Round 3 DL on 15.11

      Fri 18.11

      10-12

      Rounds 4 & 5

       

      Tue 21.11

      10-12

      Rounds 4 & 5

      Round 4 DL on 22.11

      Fri 24.11

      10-12

      Round 5

       

      Tue 28.11

      10-12

      Round 5


      Fri 1.12

      10-12

      No session due to scheduling conflict

      Round 5 DL on 6.12