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Semester (Sem)
1First Semester
2Second Semester
AAnnual course
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BIdentifying activities
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Course completely offered in italian
Course completely offered in english
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Academic Year 2022/2023
School School of Civil
Environmental and Land Management Engineering
Name (Master of Science degree)(ord. 270) - LC (437) Civil Engineering for Risk Mitigation
Track CEM - CIVIL ENGINEERING FOR RISK MITIGATION
Programme Year 1

Course Details
ID Code 091269
Course Title FUNDAMENTALS OF GIS
Course Type Mono-Disciplinary Course
Credits (CFU / ECTS) 5.0
Semester First Semester
Course Description The specific content of the modulus is focused to give a background on Geographic Information Systems. The content will be exposed through frontal lessons and informatics classroom practises. The course will deal with the following main topics: - Reference and coordinate systems: concept of scale, mapping grids, graphical representation of heights, errors and mapping tolerances; principle of cartographic projections. - Geographic data models and structures (raster, geometric/topologic vector and hybrid model); - 3D surface modelling (TIN and GRID) - Geographic Information Systems - Raster data operators: map algebra (global, local and neighbouring operators) - Vector data operators - Spatial Analysis - Meta-information; interoperability; Spatial Data Infrastructures. Exercises are based on the use of GIS software package (ArcGIS).
Scientific-Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
Educational activities SSD Code SSD Description CFU
B
ICAR/06
SURVEYING AND MAPPING
5.0

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manifesti v. 3.7.7 / 3.7.7
Area Servizi ICT
24/03/2025