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Course Name	Turkish	Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemlerinin Temelleri
	English	Fundamentals of Geographical Information Systems
Course Code	JDF 411E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	2	2	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Tahsin Yomralıoğlu
Course Objectives		Geographic Information Systems & Science (GIS) are an integrative set of concepts and technologies, including data capture (scanning, digitizing, GPS), data analysis, and output (mapping) of spatial information. This course consists of an overview of the concepts, functions, and use of GIS software and hardware combined with a service-learning, community, regional project that engages the students in an actual GIS application.
Course Description		The course incorporates rapidly developing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) theory and applications. This course, being the first within the GIS package, fundamentals of GIS, methods, data modeling, analyses, visualization and project management themes are covered. In addition to these fundamental concepts, problems and alternative solutions for spatial data handling, conceptual data modeling, spatial data analyses and GIS project management consistent with national and international standards is covered.
Course Outcomes		Students who complete this course successfully 1) Explains the concepts of GIS, spatial data and spatial database. 2) Elaborates on vector and raster data structure and differentiate data structure usage within application. 3) Identifies and selects the adequate acquisition and processing methodology for spatial data production of Geomatics Engineering applications. 4) Designs and implements the spatial conceptual data model and the GIS considering the Geomatics Engineering and other disciplines requirements. 5) Organizes and integrates data that are compatible with national and international standards. 6) Understands the spatial query and analyses and applies them to the relevant study field. 7) Reports the results of GIS analyses according to the application requirements.
Pre-requisite(s)		*** For final exam sit, term homework should be submitted.
Required Facilities
Other		HOMEWORK: CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL DESIGN AND SPATIAL QUERIES AND ANALYSES: After the 7th. week, students are expected to design a conceptaul data model on a specific subject. The relationships are prepared and spatial queries are preformed in an GIS environment. The achieved results should be presented. • The efforts is going to be delivered in a project form. • The homework is going to be a team work. • This homework is the prerequisite for sitting the final exam.
Textbook		1) Yomralıoğlu, T., (2000), “Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri: Temel Kavramlar ve Uygulamalar” (In Turkish), 5.Baskı, s.480, Akademi Kitabevi, Trabzon. 2) Worboys, M.F. and Duckham, M. (2004) GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, CRC Press, ISBN: 0415283752.
Other References		References 1) http://web.itu.edu.tr/tahsin/tahsin/GISLab.html 2) “Geographic Information Systems and Science”, Book written by Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Goodchild, David J. Maguire, David W. Rhind (a copy the ITU Library) 3) Many GIS Books in English> http://store.esri.com 4) İTÜ Kütüphanesi> http://www.kutuphane.itu.edu.tr 5) ArcGIS software documents> http://www.esri.com 6) GIS internet sites GISPortal> http://www.gis.com 7) Harvard GIS center> http://www.gis.harvard.edu 8) http://www.gisday.com/

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