Universidad de Jaén

UNIT 1. General processes in digital cartographic production.

• Introduction.
• Products, services and actors.
• Life-cycle and product data
• Model for quality production
• Modeling with UML activities

UNIT 2. Process control in cartographic production and GIS.

• Introduction.
• Propagation of uncertainty.
• Digitization.
• Georeferencing.
• Vectorization and rasterization.
• Interpolation.
• Overlay and map algebra.
• Other Operations.

UNIT 3. Generalization of spatial data

• Introduction.
• Conceptual Models.
• Generalization of the model and the data.
• Generalization of vector data.
• Generalization of raster data.
• Generalization of DEM.
• Generalization of Place Names.
• Examples.

UNIT 4. Data Integration

• Introduction
• Model conceptual.
• General process and case analysis.
• Spatial transformations.
• Detection counterparts.
• Similarity of geometries.
• Integration semantics.
•  Integration of networks.

UNIT 5. Introduction to quality. Spatial data quality.

• Introduction.
• Factors and quality costs.
• Quality Management.
• ISO standards on spatial data quality (19157).

UNIT 6. Evaluation of quality components and Spatial data.

• Introduction.
• Evaluation of the components (position, subject,completion, time, cosistencia, etc..).
• Reporting quality as metadata or standalone quality report.

UNIT 7. Printing maps.

• Introduction.
• Media and inks.
• Halftone.
• Analog technologies.
• Digital Technologies.
• 3D-printing.
• Electronic Publishing.

Lectures.
Practical and exercise sessions with software tools.
Visit to a graphic arts and printing business.

Students with special educational needs should contact the Student Attention Service (Servicio de Atención y Ayudas al Estudiante) in order to receive the appropriate academic support

The final grade is computed from the following weighting:

1. 60% of a multimodal examination corresponding to theory (60%) and applied part (40%).
2. 40 % for practices.

To proceed with the evaluation of the examination is prerequisite the previous delivery of the practices

To pass the course each of the parties must be approved.