Content (Syllabus outline)
- Introduction to geographic information systems
- Definition of geographic information systems for crisis management
- Components of geographic information systems for crisis management (for military, police, secutity services, emergency, …)
- Spatial object types of crisis management
- Basic data models in geographic information systems (vector and raster data models)
- Construction of databases for geographic information systems for crisis management
- Basic and advanced spatial analysis in geographic information systems:
• identifying and monitoring critical infrastructure,
• preventive analysis of the selected geographical areas,
• analysis of events (crime, violations of law and order, accidents, ...),
• identification of problem spots (hot spots),
• planning evacuations,
• coordination of working groups,
• determining the optimal routes of intervention,
• prediction of floods, the spread of fires and
• other.
- Reports and basics of digital cartography
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Choose GIS for the needs of crisis management;
- Install GIS for the needs of crisis management;
- Distinguish between different data models in GIS;
- Use data models in GIS;
- Compile a database for GIS needs;
- Create reports and maps for the needs of crisis management;
- Define the required elements for performing basic and advanced spatial analyses;
- Define the relevant elements for building a GIS for the organization.
Readings
- URH, Marko, JEREB, Eva. Krizni management v digitalni dobi: primer geografskih informacijskih sistemov = Crisis management in the digital age: the case of geographical information system. V: ŠPRAJC, Polona (ur.). Management v krizah : izbrana poglavja. 1. izd. Maribor: Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna založba. 2022, str. 135-157.
- URH, Marko, RAJKOVIČ, Uroš, BITENC, Iztok, KOFJAČ, Davorin. Analiza odprtokodnih in brezplačnih geografskih informacijskih sistemov s poudarkom na spletni dostopnosti in funkcionalnosti. Uporabna informatika, ISSN 1318-1882. [Tiskana izd.], 2019, letn. 27, št. 1, str. 3-15.
- Bolstad, P. (2016) GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems, Fifth Edition.
- Wise, S. (2014) GIS Fundamentals, Second Edition 2nd Edition, CRC Press.
- Tomaszewski, B. (2014) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster Management, CRC Press.
- Cromley, K. E., McLafferty, S. L. (2012) GIS and Public Health, 2nd Edition 2nd Edition, The Guilford Press.
- Gorr, W. L., Kurland, K. S. (2012) GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis (GIS Tutorials) 1st Edition, ESRI Press, New York.
- Rok Ciglič, R., Perko, D., Zorn, M. (2014) GIS V SLOVENIJI; DIGITALNI PROSTOR, založba: ZRC SAZU.
- Development, 34. Mednarodna konferenca o razvoju organizacijskih znanosti, Portorož, 25.-27. marec 2015. Kranj: Moderna organizacija. 2015, str. 1231-1238.
