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Cartography
FAST-DEB060Acad. year: 2020/2021
The content of the subject is the application of methods of software solution for cartographic visualization and geovizualization. Geovizualization represents the current trend of graphical interpretation of spatial data and the student will become acquainted both with the basic rules of cartography and with current trends in geovizualization. Attention is also paid to geovizualization in the web environment, mobile phones, cartographic animation and virtual reality.
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2. Cartographic visualization, geovisualisation and digital cartography
3. Softwares for digital cartography
4. Graphical and digital form of cadastral maps, digital format of cadastral maps
5. The concept and specifics of digital maps
6. Geovisualisation on the Internet and mobile phones
7. Web cartography
8. Digital sources of cartographic data in the Czech Republic
9. Computer maps metadata
10. Quantitative methods of cartography
11. 3D visualization
12. Dynamic maps
13. Virtual reality in cartography
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- Programme DPC-GK Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme DPA-GK Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme DPC-GK Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme DKA-GK Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
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