GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
cod. 14891

Academic year 2007/08
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Indefinito/interdisciplinare (NN)
Field
Abilità informatiche e relazionali
Type of training activity
More
24 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

<br />The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the use of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS). After an analysis of the main general characteristics of a GIS, the specific characteristics of GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System), an open source free software system, are considered. As the best way to learn and understand a GIS is through its use, the course consists mainly in exercises of encreasing difficulties, including the data acquisition and the 3D menagement. At the end of the course, some examples of advanced use of GRASS for the construction of Landslide Susceptibility maps and landslide movement simulation are illustred.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br />General GIS characteristics.<br />GRASS specific characteristics.<br />The main GRASS commands, with exercises.<br />The data acquisition in GRASS, with exercises.<br />The use of the nviz module for the 3D menagement of geographic data.<br />Exemples of advanced use of GIS in Landslide Susceptibility map construction and landslide movement simulation.<br /> 

Full programme

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Bibliography

- GRASS6.0: esercizi introduttivi (dicembre 2005) (A.Clerici)<br />http://www.geo.unipr.it/~gis/TUTORIALS/GRASSESER.W/GRASS6.0.2.pdf<br /><br />- Manuale pratico per l'uso di v.digit (GRASS6.0) (dicembre 2005) (A.Clerici) (pdf) <br />http://www.geo.unipr.it/~gis/TUTORIALS/GRASSESER.W/vdigit60.pdf<br /><br />- Manuale pratico per l'uso di nviz (GRASS6.0) (febbraio 2006) (A.Clerici) (pdf)<br />http://www.geo.unipr.it/~gis/TUTORIALS/NVIZ/tutorialnviz6.0.pdf<br />

Teaching methods

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Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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