Exercise course: Introduction to GIS (M12) (74061)

WS 2024/2025
2025-02-19-2025-02-21 (several days), S 22 (GEO II) (tbc); 2025-02-24-2025-02-25 (several days), S 22 (GEO II) (tbc)

Oliver Archner

Exercise course, 2 ECTS (Requirement: regular participation)

Block Course: from 19 to 21 February 2025 (daily from 9 am to 5 pm) and from 24 to 25 February 2025 (daily from 9 am to 5 pm)

Learning Objectives: Students will become familiar with the most important concepts and functions of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). After completing the course they will be able to conduct a simple spatial analysis independently. 

Course content: Training in GIS software and its functionality: modelling spatial information, spatial reference systems, ways to produce geodata, spatial and factual queries for geodata, selected methods of spatial analysis, formulation of analyses using process models, basic techniques of cartographic presentation.