Tutorial No. 1 - Check your knowledge
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Tutorial No. 1 - Check your knowledge#
Answer the following questions with yes or no:
Basic Computer Knowledge#
Hardware#
Do you know how disk (block devices) can be cut into partitions
Do you know what the role of the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) is in starting up your computer
What is the MBR
Did you replace a component of your computer yourself (e.g., a drive, a harddisk, the graphics card)
Did you build a computer from scratch (starting with the mainboard, adding memory and CPU, etc.)
The Windows Operating System#
Did you already install a Windows operating system to a computer
The Linux Operating System#
Have you used a Linux computer
Have you installed a Linux computer (or virtual machine running Linux)
Did you rent a Linux-based virtual server
Did you write a program dedicated for running on a Linux computer
The Internet#
Did you use a web browser
Did you use a command line tool for accessing the web (wget, curl,…)
Do you know the inner workings of at least one text-based Internet protocol like SMTP, POP3, or FTP
Do you know what RESTful services should be
Do you know Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) mainly built on XML-specified web services
Did you create a web page
Did you use web service
Spatial Data Exposure#
Do you have experience with geospatial simple feature data?
Do you have experience with point clouds
Do you have experience with OpenStreetMap data
Do you have experience with RGB images (camera)
Do you have experience with orthophotos (RGB)
Do you have experience with optical satellite imagery (multispectral)
Do you have experience with SAR data
Do you have experience with mobile devices deploying some GNSS
Do you have experience with accellerometers and gyroscopes
Do you know projections and their impact on spatial data representation
Are you able to reproject a GeoTIFF file into another projection
Spatial Tools#
Did you create an online map in HTML/Javascript using the Leaflet Framework
Do you know the mapnik rendering toolkit
Did you perform spatial statistics
Did you perform spatial interpolation
Did you work with QGIS
Did you use Python within QGIS
Did you work with Blender
Did you use Python within Blender
Did you work with ArcGIS
Algorithms Knowledge#
Do you know the Dijkstra Algorithm
Do you know the Algorithm of Floyd
Do you know how to calculate the shortest path on a sphere
Can you imagine and algorithm to find the nearest encounter for ships on a sphere?
Can you formulate the Traveling Salesman Problem
Do you know what the Fréchet Distance of Spatial Trajectories is
Do you know a means to compare sets of points with each other. If so, which one?
Special Aspects you want to see covered#
(just write up to a single paragraph here)