Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri
	English	Geographical Informatn Systms
Course Code	JDF 411E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	7	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Ahmet Özgür Doğru Nesibe Necla Uluğtekin
Course Objectives		This lecture aims at to contribute educating engineers, who is well informed about GIS and has the ability of design, and manage projects and share their knowledge for the furtherance of public welfare.
Course Description		This lecture covers basic usage of cartography, geodesy and geography in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The fundamental concepts of GIS such as data, data structure, data models, databases, information, system, system architecture, analyze and presentation of information are main issues considered during the lectures. Furthermore the lectures are enhanced with various applications of information systems in order to highlight GIS and interdisciplinary wide range usage of GIS.
Course Outcomes		GIS terms and its relations with other disciplines. Importing maps in to computer environment. Topology and geometrical infrastructure. Issues that should be considered while setting up GIS GIS applications Future of GIS Presentations of term projects
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Textbook		Clarke, K.: Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems. Prentice Hall. (2001), ISBN 013-016829-7.
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