The GIS workshop conducted in the context of the Singapore research on the Rochor area serves to support the data acquisition, organization and eventual projective scenario developments of Module III and Module IV, IX’s project. It is assembled with specific questions of the research and will be conducted in weekly sessions to aid in the first steps of data processing for the Singapore research.

Instructor(s):
Derek Vollmer (Mod VII), Michael van Eggermond (Mod VIII), Wang Tao (Mod IX), Eva Friedrich (Mod IX), Stefan Muller Arisona  (Module IX), Andres Sevtsuk (SUTD)

Topics

1) Basics and data input
-GIS basics and GIS at FCL
-coordinate systems in cartography and GIS
-georeferencing: image maps and vector drawings (Singapore as an example)

2) Data management
-common GIS data models and file formats
-working with database and geo-services
-data quality/topological consistency
-query, output/interoperability

3) Data analysis and processing 1
-vector based
-raster based
-spatial statistics, time series

4) Data analysis and processing 2
-vector based
-raster based
-spatial statistics, time series

5) Street network analysis

6) Representation