Spatial Data Management

On successful completion of this short course you will:

• Design and build appropriate database structures for GIS analysis using a Geodatabase
• Manipulate data within and between a range of database management systems
• Appreciate the application of systems analysis methodologies to spatial data
• Appreciate role of the INSPIRE Directive for driving interoperability between spatial data infrastructures
• Establish and use protocols for data and metadata management
• Practical experience with a range of industry-standard database systems, data and GIS tools.

• Introduction and overview of spatial data management
• Database structures – ordered and indexed lists, hierarchical, network, relational, object oriented. Hybrid structure
• Metadata – standards and practice, creation, maintenance, distribution, control
• Systems analysis and analysis approaches – methods for designing computerised spatial systems
• Object orientation – theory and practice
• Data formats, interoperability and handling of geographic data
• INSPIRE and the Spatial Data Infrastructure
• Client server database management systems – Postgres/PostGIS and SQL.