THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- DAVIDE VISENTIN
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ANT/10
Training objectives
- Within this course the student will be given all the essential tools to use GIS in a correct and profitable way. Along with cartography and reference systems bases, during the course will be examined the main archaeological application fields of GIS and the main analysis methods. Within laboratory session the student will be provided with the basic knowledge concerning the QGIS software and how to apply its function to the study of archaeological evidence.
Prerequisites
- Basic computer knowledge.
Course programme
- The course consists of 7 lectures (14h) that will deal with the following subjects:
- theoretical bases for interpreting spatial data and using GIS in the archaeological field;
- bases concerning cartography and national and international reference systems;
- Italian official cartography (IGMI, CTR, Catasto);
- thematic maps;
- numeric cartography;
- exemples and case-studies of application of GIS to archaeological landscape analysis;
- exemples and case-studies of application of GIS to archaeological intra-site analysis;
- main geostatistical tools for spatial analysis of archaeological evidence.
These will be followed by 4 practical lectures that will give the student the possibility to put into practice the newly acquired notions. In particular the 4 practical lectures will be aimed at:
a) getting to know QGIS and creating a topographic map;
b) using QGIS to reproduce some landscape archaeology applications;
c) getting to know how to manage field data with a GIS software;
d) using QGIS to reproduce some archaeological intra-site analysis applications. Didactic methods
- The course will consists of lectures and practical activities aimed at knowing how the software QGIS works.
Learning assessment procedures
- The oral examination will be aimed at assessing the knowledge of the theoretical concepts discussed during the course as well as the knowledge of QGIS software by discussing the maps produced during the practical lectures.
Reference texts
- The examination will concern exclusively the material included in the presented slides.
For personal interest the following manual is suggested:
James Conolly, Mark Lake - Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology
