Course detail
Geodesy 1
FAST-BEA003Acad. year: 2023/2024
Elementary terms related to geodesy and geodetic basics, measuring of directions and angles, direction in space and its components- horizontal and vertical direction, experiments for measuring – theodolite’s construction and construction of its parts, measuring methods of horizontal, vertical directions (angles), errors of measured directions and angles. Centering of measured directions and angles. Measuring of distances with tape. Indirect trigonometric distance measurement. Electronic distance meters, Indirect optical and parallactic distance measuring methods. Errors and accuracy of measured distances. Conversion of measuring data to plane of reference. Processing of geodetic data – basic coordinate computation.
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Aims
Student gets an overview of geodesy. Acquaintance with basic principles, methods and processing of geodetic angle and distance measurements. Student gets an overview of terminology for consequential courses.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Banerjee, P. P., Ting-Chung Poon: Principles of applied optics, Homewood, Aksen Associates Incorp.Irwin, 1991 (EN)
CARY, Edward Richard: Geodetic Surveying, 2016, 978-1362594871 (EN)
FORAL, Jakub a VONDRÁK, Jiří: Geodetická příručka – část I, úhly, délky a výšky, 2007 (CS)
FORAL, Jakub, KALVODA, Petr, KRATOCHVÍL, Richard, ŠVÁB, Tomáš a VONDRÁK, Jiří: Geodetická příručka, část II, výpočty, mapy, katastr nemovitostí, fotogrammetrie, GPS, 2008 (CS)
IRVINE, William: Surveying for Construction, London: McGraw-Hill, 1995, ISBN 978-0077079987 (EN)
Paul R. Wolf, Charles D. Ghilani: Elementary Surveying - an introduction to geomatics, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice-Hall 2002. (EN)
Ratiborský,J.: Geodézie, ČVUT Praha, 1998 (CS)
TORGE, Wolfgang: Geodesy, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-087995-7 (EN)
Vaniček, P., Krakivsky, E.: Geodesy: The Concepts, NorthHolland, Amsterdam 1980. (EN)
Recommended reading
Hradílek, L.: Vysokohorská geodézie, Academia Praha, 1984 (CS)
Evropský parlament: Směrnice Evropského Parlamentu a Rady 2007/2/ES, 2007 (CS)
Nevosád, Z., Soukup, F., Vitásek, J.: Gedodézie II, VUTIUM Brno, 1999 (CS)
STANĚK, Vlastimil a HOSTINOVÁ, Gabriela a KOPÁČIK Aloiz: Geodézia v stavebníctve, 2007, ISBN 978-80-8076-048-9 (SK)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-GK Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
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Lecture
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Syllabus
1. Elementary terms and principles of geodesy.
2. Simple surveying tools and their using geometric optics, fundamentals of wave optics.
3. Total station and theodolite – constructional parts, instrument optics.
4. Measurement of horizontal directions and angles.
5. Measurement of vertical angles.
6. Distance mesurement – principles and methods, Indirect optical distance measurement.
7. Taping. Indirect trigonometric distance measurement.
8. Parallactic distance measurement, elektronic distance measurement.
9. Electronic distance meters.
10. Conversion of measuring data to plane of reference.
11. Coordinate computation 1.
12. Coordinate computation 2.
13. Transformation.
The course is full of lectures available on the e-learning.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Elementary terms and principles of geodesy.
2. Simple surveying tools and their using.
3. Total station – structural optical, electronic and mechanical parts.
4. Measurement of horizontal directions and angles.
5. Measurement of vertical angles.
6. Distance mesurement – principles and methods for tape measurement.
7. Total station – elektronic distance measurement.
8. Elektronic distance measurement.
9. Conversion of measuring data to plane of reference.
10. Coordinate computation 1.
11. Coordinate computation 2.
12. Recapitulation.
13. Credit.