Fundamentals of cartography: the main types of cartographic representation and projective systems; the official Italian IGMI cartography and the Regional Technical Cartography. Reading the Topographic maps.
The numerical cartography and GIS. The coordinate systems mainly used in Italy and the georeferencing of cartographic data. Coordinate conversion criteria.
Input, output and storage systems of spatial data. The multilayer structuring of spatial data.
Raster data and vector data. Structure of raster data, geometric and radiometric resolution. Structure of vector data, geometric primitives, attributes and topological relationships. Raster-vector and vector-raster transformations.
The territorial attributes and organization through the relational model. The geodatabase.
Querying of GIS data using SQL language. Spatial and a-spatial queries. Reclassification.
Main data interpolation criteria: global and local methods (IDW, Trend Surface, Spline etc.)
Vector and raster digital terrain models: DSM, TIN and DEM. Main interpolation methods for the realization of digital terrain models starting from point clouds and / or contour lines. Main applications of digital terrain models and their use for the realization of derived maps (slopes, exposure, etc.).
Integrated analysis criteria between raster and vector data. Spatial analysis: the neighborhood filter, the cell statistics, the proximity analysis (buffer and distance matrix, etc.). The thematic overlay. The map algebra, the topological overlay and the integration between spatial data and attribute data (spatial joining).
Practical applications and implementation of a GIS project.