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67252 Advanced Geographical Information Systems Danish title: Geografiske informationssystemer - videregående Language: Danish Credit points: 7½ Type:  Open University Language: Danish Previous course: C5514 No credit points with: C5514 Prerequisite: 67153/67152 Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester Scope and form: Project work Examination: Evaluation of report and oral presentation (13-scale) Participant limitation: max. 30 Contact person:  Ole Illum Jacobi, Building 501, Tel. +45 4525 5970, email jacobi@lanmai.ilf.dtu.dk, http://www.bbar.dtu.dk/~ilfjac/jacob.html URL: http://www.bbar.dtu.dk/~ilfjac/67252/67252.html Department: Department of Planning Aim: To give the students an insight into the theories of Geographical Information Systems, geographical datasets, their quality, keys and access to data by working with projects, lectures and seminars Contents: The students will be working in project groups; each group will be given the task to get a dataset with geographical keys and transform this dataset to a GIS system and make an analysis and a description of the data quality. The projectwork will include the structure of Geographical Information Systems and databases, topology, digital elevation models, data exchange and formats connection between digital maps and administrative databases, 3D-data and visualisation. When the datasets from each group are read into the GIS, the datasets are compared and statistical analyses are carried out.