BASICS OF TEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS

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Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in CULTURAL HERITAGE SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

Economic and Political Geography

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None

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BASICS OF TEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS

CULTURAL HERITAGE SCIENCES

AF code:

40004750

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Theoretical-practical final exam

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

Reading ability and interpretation of territorial data through digital and traditional cartography; knowledge and treatment of territorial data; interpretation of topographic and tematic maps and their use for the research applied on cultural heritage; basic techniques for the georeferentiation and for the digital processing of geographic information. Basis of Gis, open source and commercial, and foundations of remote sensing, applied on cultural heritage.

Contents

The course will provide basis to read and inerpret territory, through digital and traditional cartography and to know the rilief techniques,elaboration and interpretation of data about cultural heritage, also through the use of GIS, on which will be provide basis. Will be also handle techniques for the relief and the treatment of remote sensig images, in particular referring to cultural heritage and to the acquisition and the development of digital georeferred information ( GPS, Smartphone etc.).

Recommended Bibliography

Programma per frequentanti:
A.CATIZZONE, Fondamenti di cartografia, Gangemi, Roma, 2007
A. FAVRETTO, Strumenti per l'analisi geografica GIS e Telerilevamento, Bologna, Pàtron (parte prima).

Programma non frequentanti:
A.CATIZZONE, Fondamenti di cartografia, Gangemi, Roma, 2007
A. FAVRETTO, Strumenti per l'analisi geografica GIS e Telerilevamento, Bologna, Pàtron (parte prima).
G. SCANU, L’ultima rivoluzione della cartografia: le rappresentazioni digitali, in Asita 2017, Asita, Milano.
http://atti.asita.it/ASITA2017/Pdf/167.pdf
G. SCANU, C. PODDA, G. Scanu, Cartografia e smart city. Una nuova tappa nell’evoluzione della storia delle rappresentazioni delle città, in Asita 2018, Asita, Milano.
http://atti.asita.it/ASITA2017/Pdf/167.pdf

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

video -tutorial-laboratory
The laboratoral activity provides for practices on cartographic reading methods and construction techniques.
Realization of a cartographic progect through the use of GIS.

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