Degree | Type | Year |
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4315985 Geoinformation | OT | 0 |
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Course pending faculty assignment (instructors to be determined)
This course has no specific requirements. Students should only have a basic knowledge of using general software such as Windows, Excel, and Word.
The main goal of the course is to provide a defined context for the development of geoinformation products and services that has a strong innovation character. Therefore, the course is focused on the most dynamic sector of geospatial information application, that is the intelligent management of processes in urban systems known as smart cities and Internet of things (IoT). They made possible to link through the net, the operation of systems and of everyday objects both in public and private activities, making use of geolocation and geospatial content in order to customize and contextualize the services provided and the behaviour of systems.
The course includes a revision of current trends in urban development and management, and also of planning and management policies for urban development and service supply, with particular focus on opportunities for the implementation of smart services. At the same time, the course offers a broad overview of innovation models and strategies, and also of the resources for devising R+D+I projects and for dissemination and achievement of the multiplying effects of innovations.
Urban dynamics and planning and management policies
1. Contemporary urbanization process: urban fabric transformation and delimitation.
2. Territorial elements in the city definition: urban form.
3. Opportunities and challenges of urbanization and its impact on urban networks.
4. City definition through infrastructure and services networks: network density and equipment.
5. Social agents and urban uses.
6. City definition according volume, density, and activity.
7. City definition according mobility urban flows.
8. City definition according accessibility and mobility.
9. City definition according to transport models.
10. Potentialities, legal limitations, political limitations and ethical limitations in the GIS uses.
R+D+I for smart cities
1. Introduction to smart cities.
2. Earth Observation from sensors.
3. Geoinformation and smart cities.
4. Climate and smart cities.
5. Smart cities and international study cases.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures on basic concepts | 36 | 1.44 | 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Semester project, exercises and oral presentations | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Practical exercises | 69 | 2.76 | 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13 |
Learning is achieved by means of three types of activities:
Directed activities: Directed activities are theoretical and practical lectures in a computer lab. They include solving case studies and practical exercises, using as the main method a problem based learning approach. Lectures serve to systematize all the content, to present the state of the art of the different subjects, to provide methods and techniques for specific tasks, and to sum up the knowledge to learn. Lectures also organize the autonomous and complementary work done by the students.
Supervised activities: Supervised activities are focused on the execution of a semester project, consisting of a real case study, carried out through workshop hours, autonomous work and tutorials. This semester project allows applying together all the knowledge and technical skills learnt in all the courses of the semester. The semester project is a milestone for the students and the current demonstration that they had achieved the learning goals of all the courses of the semester. It is also the main evidence for evaluation, as students should have to submit at the end of the semester a report that summarizes the whole project and do an oral presentation.
Autonomous activities: Autonomous work of the students includes personal readings (papers, manuals, relevant reports, etc.), data and documentation search, complementary exercises and the personal development of the semester project.
The activities that could not be done on-site will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools. Exercises, projects, and lectures will be carried out using virtual tools such as tutorials, videos, Teams sessions, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Oral presentations | 25 | 9 | 0.36 | 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 |
Practical exercises | 45 | 9 | 0.36 | 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14 |
Report submissions | 30 | 12 | 0.48 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15 |
In the event that assessment activities cannot be taken on-site, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
CONTINUOUS EVALUATION. This subject/module does not incorporate single assessment.
a) Evaluation procedure and activities:
Evaluation of the course is based mostly on the semester project, that comprises two evaluation activities. The elaboration and submission of a synthesis report and the oral presentation of the project done. Given the technical content of the course, the weight assigned to the project report is 30% of the total course grading, assuming that it is the most appropriate means to explain all the technical details of the project. And a weight of 25% at the oral presentation. The course assessment is completed with the evaluation of the practical exercises done along the course, that account for another 45% of the total course grading.
Except when expressly noticed, all the evaluation activities (report and oral presentation of the semester project, as well as practical exercises) have to be carried out individually.
Time assigned to each evaluation activity includes the time spent in making all the material evidences for evaluating each activity (e.g., writing of the report, preparing the presentation slides, etc.).
b) Evaluation schedule:
2nd semester project report: Making during all the semester. Submission at the end of semester, on April 11st 2025.
2nd semester project oral presentation: Making during all the semester. Oral presentation at the end of semester,on April 25th 2025.
Course practical exercises: Making and submission weekly or biweekly along the semester.
c) Grade revision:
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
Once the grades obtained are published, students will have one week to apply for a grade revision by arranging an appointment with the corresponding teachers.
d) Procedure for reassessment:
2nd semester project report: It could be reassessed in the following two weeks after the submission date scheduled. Reassessment will require the submission of a new whole report in case of negative evaluation of the former report submitted.
2nd semester project oral presentation It could be reassessed in the following week after the date scheduled for the oral presentation. Reassessment will require doing again the oral presentation in case of negative evaluation of the former presentation done.
Course practical exercises: Can not be reassessed.
To have the right to a reassessment, the student will have to have been previously evaluated in a set of activities that account for at least two thirds of the total course grading. Therefore, he or she will have to have been evaluated of the 1st semester project report (40%) and of the 1st semester project oral presentation (30%) in the dates scheduled.
The right to a reassessment will only be granted to students that, having not passed the course (e.g., having a total course grade below 5 over 10), had obtained at least a total course grade above 3,5over 10.
e) Conditions for a ‘Not assessable’ grade:
Students will receive the grade ‘Not assessable’ instead of ‘Fail’ if they had submitted neither the 2nd semester project report nor done the 2nd semester project oral presentation. Students will obtain a Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 1/3 of the assessment items.
f) UAB regulations on plagiarism and other irregularities in the assessment process:
In the event of a student committing any irregularity, that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Assessment activities with a zero grade because of irregularities can not be reassessed.
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
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Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PLABm) Practical laboratories (master) | 1 | Spanish | second semester | morning-mixed |
(TEm) Theory (master) | 1 | Spanish | second semester | afternoon |