The Course is aimed at creating the fundamental knowledge for the acquisition, integration and management of urban and environmental geographic databases and their interoperability with others.
systems. Recognising the nature and usefulness of the data, its retrieval and transformation, the consequent obtainment of the information complex functional to construction and updating
of SIT (Part 1 - The spatial databases). Recognising database characters, archives topography and the main functionalities of computer tools for creation and manipulation
of SIT (Part 2 - Models for territorial analysis). At the end of the course students will have acquired capacity and autonomy for the management of cartographic data in digital format within a SIT platform and to perform the most common elaborations from such data, including the realization of digital models for the analysis and interpretation of different aspects of reality territorial. In addition, they will have acquired the necessary skills to assess the quality of the digital cartographic data and products derived from them and to know the basic concepts related to the publication and sharing of geodata. The creation and dissemination of geographical databases is
regulated by the European directive "INSPIRE", in this direction during the course will be examined the its salient parts.