Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) are systems that create, manage, analyze, and map all types of data.
Geographic Information Systems link data to a map, and integrate location data
(where things are located) with all types of descriptive information. This
course explains the following concepts: Provide the student with information
about a concept Geographic information systems (GIS), their importance,
practical uses, data analysis methods, and the most important programs and
systems used.
Intended learning outcomes
After passing this course, the
student will acquire knowledge and skills represented in showing geographical
patterns and relationships, including benefits, improving communication and
efficiency, in addition to improving management and decision-making, drawing
maps and analyzing data, explaining the basic concepts of geographic
information systems and their structure, understanding the components of the
GIS program, giving the student the ability To interpret and modify spatial information,
to compare spatial and descriptive data, and to build a table of data to create
maps and related reports. With the ability to handle GIS technology.
Teaching and learning methods
Scientific lectures, group
discussion, use of maps, pictures, computers, training and practical
application.
Methods of assessments
midterm exam 15%
Practical training 15%
Research papers 10%
- Final exam: 60%
Passing score: 50%
Geographic Information Systems
definition, historical overview, and benefits First week
Programs used in geographic
information systems, second week
GIS vehicles third week
What is Arc Gis system and
components? And what are the levels of the Arc Gis Desktop system, the fourth
week?
Basics of applying and displaying
the contents of Arc Map, fifth week
How to create slides in Arc catlog
of type Feature class
Determining the Utm Global
Projection System Sixth Week
Georeferencing (How to correct the
map and convert it from Jpg to Img) Seventh week
Midterm exam week eight
How to draw in the Arc Map
program, the ninth week
Methods of representation of
geographical data, the tenth week
Map output and storage for the
eleventh week
Data analysis methods used in GiS,
programs and systems used in GiS, the twelfth week
Thirteenth Week Explorer
The use of computers in the design
of the fourteenth week
Practical exercises on some maps,
the fifteenth week
Final exam sixteenth week
Books and references:
1/ Khalaf Hussein Ali Al-Dulaimi, Geographic Information
Systems, first edition, Dar Safaa for Publishing and Distribution, Amman,
Jordan, 2005.
2/ Fawzi Abdullah Saeed, Introduction to Geographic
Information Systems and its Geographical and Environmental Applications, Dar Al-Fikr
Al-Arabi, Beirut, 1998.
3/ Muhammad Abd al-Jawad Muhammad, Geographical
Information Systems, Dar al-Safaa Publishing House, Amman, Jordan, 2001.
Note: The course instructor
determines the main reference for teaching the course, and uses what he deems
appropriate from the supporting references.
