Spatial Databases
Semester: 1st | Compulsory | ECTS: 7.5
Stream: C’
Module leader: Zafeiropoulos Anastasios
Module Objectives
The course aims to familiarize graduate students (PGs) with spatial databases. During the semester, the PGs prepare a series of laboratory exercises relating to the creation of an ER model and familiarise themselves with Database Management Systems such as MS Access.
Course Content
The course includes the following modules: Databases and Database Management Systems, Design and Implementation of Database Systems, the SQL language, Spatial Databases, Entity / Relationship (ER) Model, Commercial and Open Source Geographic Database Management Systems.
Teaching and Assessment
The course includes two-hour lectures and a number of laboratory exercises. The selection, preparation and delivery of projects is submitted at the end of the semester.
– Project
– Less than two (2) absences
Postgraduate Programme “Applied Geography and Spatial Planning”
Stream Α’
MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL AND HUMAN INDUCED RISKS AND DISASTERS
1st Semester | Winter
- Environmental Risks and Security | C | 7,5
- Natural Processes, Hazards, and Disasters | C | 7,5
- Vulnerability and Risk: Prevention and Preparedness | C | 7,5
- Social and economic impacts of disasters | Ε | 7,5
- Scientific Research Methods in Geography | Ε | 7,5
- Environmental Change: Observation and Prediction | Ε | 7,5
2nd Semester | Spring
- Emergency Planning | C | 7,5
- Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction Planning | C | 7,5
- Coastal Zones Natural Hazards | Ε | 7,5
- Local Sustainable Development: Programmes and Social Resistance | Ε | 7,5
- Geoinformatics for Disaster Management | Ε | 7,5
- Applied Spatial Analysis | Ε | 7,5
- Governance of Environmental Risk | Ε | 7,5
- Institutions and Security Policy in European Space | Ε | 7,5
3rd Semester | Winter
- Postgraduate Thesis | C | 30
- Placement | E | 10
- Seminar | E | 10
Stream B’
SPATIAL POLICIES AND DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE
1st Semester | Winter
- Scientific Research Methods in Geography | C | 7,5
- Planning and Spatial Development: Theories and Practices | C | 7,5
- Geographies of Globalization | C | 7,5
- Migration Policy and Migratory Flows | Ε | 7,5
- Inequality and Segregation Issues in European Cities | Ε | 7,5
2nd Semester | Spring
- Urban Development and Redevelopment Policies | C | 7,5
- Regional Development and Policy | C | 7,5
- Development and Restructuring of Rural Europe | Ε | 7,5
- Local Sustainable Development: Programmes and Social Resistance | Ε | 7,5
- Applied Spatial Analysis | Ε | 7,5
- Demographic Trends and Challenges | Ε | 7,5
- Methods of Regional Analysis with Emphasis on Spatial Econometrics | Ε | 7,5
- Transnationalism and Human Geography | Ε | 7,5
- Institutions and Security Policy in European Space | Ε | 7,5
3rd Semester | Winter
- Postgraduate Thesis | C | 30
- Placement | E | 10
- Seminar | E | 10
Stream C’
GEOINFORMATICS
1st Semester | Winter
- Scientific Research Methods in Geography | C | 7,5
- Applied GIS Based Geographical Analysis | C | 7,5
- Advanced Topics of Remote Sensing | C | 7,5
- Spatial Databases | C | 7,5
2nd Semester | Spring
- Research Themes in Geoinformatics | C | 7,5
- Programming for spatial data analysis | E | 7,5
- Geomodeling | E | 7,5
- Geoinformatics for Disaster Management | E | 7,5
- Applied Spatial Analysis | E | 7,5
- Methods of Regional Analysis with Emphasis on Spatial Econometrics | E | 7,5
- Advanced Topics of Applied Geoinformation for the Environment | E | 7,5
3rd Semester | Winter
- Postgraduate Thesis | C | 30
- Placement | E | 10
- Seminar | E | 10
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