COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR RECEP ALP KUT

Offered to

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM)
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Geographical Information Systems (Non-Thesis)

Course Objective

Over the past twenty-five years or so many people have become aware of the benefits which accrue from organising and integrating data geographically. Indeed, such has been the success of this approach that Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have been applied to an extremely wide range of application areas. In order to satisfy the requirements of this diverse community, many GIS software developers have adopted the strategy of developing a generic suite of multi-purpose software routines, together with some type of customisation programming capability. This allows core GIS software developers to concentrate effort on engineering robust and reliable generic routines. The task of creating specific-purpose, enduser (or vertical application) customisations is usually seen as the domain of application developers. These application developers may belong to the core software developer's organisation, the user's organisation, or some independent organization.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Bell D, Morrey I and Pugh J (1992) Software engineering: a programming approach. 2nd edn.
Prenctice-Hall, New York
2. Chen P P (1976) The entity-relationship model: towards a unified view of data. ACM Transactions on
Database Systems 1(1): 9-35
3. Rumbaugh J, Blaha M, Premerlani W, Eddy F, Lorensen W (1991) Object oriented modelling and
design Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall
4. ESRI (1994) Paper Prototyping AM/M/GIS. Applications: quality/schedule trade-offs ESRI White
Paper ESRI, Redlands

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentations and projects

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes