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CVL284

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CVL284
Fundamentals of Geographic Information
Credits 3
Structure 2-0-2
Pre-requisites COL100
Overlaps

CVL284 : Fundamentals of Geographic Information

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What is GIS. Geographic concepts for GIS. Spatial relationships, topology, spatial patterns, spatial interpolation. Data storage, data structure, non-spatial database models. Populating GIS, digitizing data exchange, data conversion. Spatial data models, Raster and Vector data structures and algorithms. Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and their application. Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) model. GIS application areas, Spatial analysis, quantifying relationships, spatial statistics, spatial search. Decision making in GIS context.