Geographic Information Technologies in Spatial Planning
Code
722041105
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Geografia e Planeamento Regional
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
José António Tenedório
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1 To understand the role of Geographic Information Technologies in the Spatial Planning;
2 To contribute to increase the students knowledge on the principles, methods and techniques used in Spatial Planning, by means of Geographic Information Technologies;
3 To conduct geographic information extraction from Remote Sensing images;
4 To make spatial analysis in Geographic Information Systems;
5 To understand modeling, simulation and visualization, as methods to create territorial scenarios
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1 Introduction: i) technical concepts; ii) requirements of the land management legal instruments towards the geographic information needed to execute the formal content in Urban and Spatial Planning; iii) making information available in the internet: geo-referenced digital transcription of the plans documental content; iv) Geographic Information Technologies potentials and limitations for Spatial Planning;
2 Remote Sensing: i) sensors and resolutions; ii) image classification and feature extraction; iii) postclassification; iv) integration in Geographic Information Systems; v) performing image digital processing.
3 Spatial analysis in Geographic Information Systems for Spatial Planning: theory and practice.
4 Geographical Modeling: i) introduction to complex systems; ii) cellular automata models; iii) multi-agent systems.
5 2D and 3D visualization in Spatial Planning.
Bibliography
- Batty, Michael (2005) Cities and Complexity, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Dodge, Martin; McDerby, Mary; Turner, Martin (eds.) (2008) Geographic Visualization. Concepts, Tools and Applications, Chichester, Wiley.
- Lillesand, Thomas M., Kiefer, Ralph W., Chipman, Jonathan W. (2003) Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 5ª edição
- Longley, Paul; Goodchild, Michael; Maguire, David; Rhind, David (eds.) (2005) Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Management and Applications, New York, Wiley, 2ª. Edição
Teaching method
1 - Theoretical and practical classes, focusing on: i) presentation to theoretical understand the principles, rationale and methods used in Geographic Information Technologies, ii) designing projects in Spatial Planning using Geographic Information Technologies.
2 - Computational applications, centered on: i) handling software ii) development of a project.
Evaluation method
Continuous evaluation, with individual assignments, on-line forum discussions and a final face to face examination.
The evaluation includes:
a) Project (60%);
b) Presentation and discussion of the project (10%);
c) Ongoing evaluation of class participation (30%).