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UNAL - FCA - Geomatica Basica 2022-2S

Welcome to the GB2022 course - Código SIA 2015896

This is the main communication site for the course. Here you will find the lectures, readings, and assignments. This is a place to visit regularly.

Objectives

• To learn basic concepts and theory about major geoinformation disciplines
• To develop practical skills for understanding and processing geospatial data
• To offer opportunities to enhance spatial thinking and argumentative abilities

Programación detallada

Schedule

Week 1 – Geospatial data and information – 8 to 12 August 2022

• Theory:

  • Geospatial data
  • From data to information
  • Data models

• Practical:

  • Download spatial data for your study area
  • Check metadata

• Reading 1:

  • What is geomatics?

Week 2 – Coordinate systems and cartographic projections - 15 to 19 August 2022

• Theory:

  • Geodesy, Coordinate Systems and Map Projections

• Practical:

  • Understand projections and EPSG codes
  • Change projection of geospatial data

• Reading 2:

  • Referencias y proyección empleadas en la cartografia colombiana

Week 3 – Global Navegation Satellite Systems – 22 to 26 August

• Lecture:

  • W8- Global Navegation Satellite Systems

• Readings:

  • How to plot GPX tracks with R
  • What is trilateration?

• Practical:

  • Learn to use the GARMIN GPSMap 64sc
  • Survey selected polygons, lines and points

Week 4 - Cartography – 29 August to 2 September

• W3 - Cartography

  • W3 - Thematic maps

• QGIS Practical:

  • How to make a map of municipalities

• Home activity:

  • Students make two maps:
    • Mapa de zona de estudio (incluye municipios, ciudades, vías, hidrografía)
    • Mapa de relieve departamental (incluye DEM, ciudades, vías, hidrografía)

Week 5 - Academic fieldwork – 6 to 8 September

Visit to Centro de Investigaciones La Libertad (Agrosavia) was canceled

UNAL campus activity:

• GPS Survey
• UAV Flight
• QGIS Map making

Week 6 – Spatial databases – 12 to 16 September

Lecture:

• Pre-processing UAV images

Practical:

• My first R notebook
  • Evaluaciones Agropecuarias Municipales (EVA)

Week 7 – Spatial data queries - 19 to 23 September

• Independent activities:
  • Do your homework
  • Complete and publish your first R notebook
    • Due date: 20 September

Week 8 – Tidyverse - 26 to 30 September

Lecture:

• What is the Tidyverse?

Practical:

• My second R notebook
  • How to make thematic maps

Examen No. 1 (25%) – 29 September

Week 9 – Thematic maps revisited - 3 to 7 October

Lecture:

• Data visualization in R

Practical:

• A revised version of the second notebook

Entrega Informe No. 1 (25%) – 5 October:

1. Mapa de zona de estudio impreso a color
2. Mapa de relieve departamental impreso a color
3. Cuaderno No. 1 publicado en RPubs
4. Cuaderno No. 2 publicado en RPubs

Week 10 – Geographic web services – 10 to 14 October

Lecture:

• OGC Standards

Practical:

• Acessing web services:
  • IDECA - Orthophoto 2017
  • Sistema de Información para la Planificación Rural Agropecuaria (SIPRA)

Week 11 – Spatial data quality – 17 to 21 October

Lecture:

• Spatial data quality

Practical:

• Digitize polygons, lines and points over the campus orthophoto
• Upload your GPX data to QGIS
• Evaluate spatial accuracy

Week 12 – Digital elevation models – 24 to 28 October

Lecture:

• Digital elevation models
• An illustrated guide to geomorphometry

Practical:

• Visualize a DSM for your study area
• Compute geomorphometric variables

Tasks:

• Study the slope and aspect algorithms most used in GIS

Week 13 - Spatial interpolation I – 31 October to 4 November

Lecture:

• What is spatial interpolation?

Practical:

• Write the following R notebook:
  • Get climate normals
  • Conduct spatial interpolation

El plazo para publicar sus dos cuadernos es el 30 de noviembre a las 11:59 pm

Week 14 - Spatial interpolation II - 7 to 11 November

Lecture:

• Kriging interpolation

Practical:

• Write the following R notebook:
  • Conduct spatial interpolation

Week 15 - Fundamentals of remote sensing - 14 to 18 November

Lecture:

• Remote sensing tutorials

Prectical:

• Landsat Explorer

Week 16 - Remote sensing of vegetation - 21 to 25 November

Examen No. 2 (25%) – 23 de noviembre

Lecture:

• Discover NDVI and its practical uses in agriculture
• Crop disease severity from UAV images

Practical:

• Explore Agro Dashboard's functionalities

NOTAS PARCIALES:

• Examen No. 1
• Informe No. 1

Week 17 - Digital agriculture – 28 November to 2 December

Entrega Informe No. 2 (25%) – 30 de noviembre

• Informe No. 2

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