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Objectives and competences

The student will: - Understand the basic concepts of GIS - Learned the elements of GIS for the needs of crisis management - Learned about different data types in GIS - Understand databases for GIS needs - Learned the concept of choosing a GIS for the organization's needs - Learned basic spatial analysis - Learned about advanced spatial analysis - Understand the role of GIS for the needs of crisis management.

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

Learning and teaching methods

- lectures - tutorial

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.

Prerequisits

Prerequisite for the exam are completed tasks in context of lectures and tutorial.

  • viš. pred. dr. MARKO URH, univ. dipl. org.

  • Written examination: 100

  • : 45
  • : 30
  • : 100

  • Slovenian
  • Slovenian

  • CRISIS MANAGEMENT - 1st