Course detail

Geodesy and Cartography

FAST-BEA028Acad. year: 2025/2026

Role of geodesy i building industry and architecture. Gedetic datums.
Global navigation satellite systems. Angel and distance measurements. Coordinate calculation. Determination of elevations. Digital terrain model. Mapping - geodetical methods. Setting out works. Determination of displacements and deformations of structures. Determination areas and volumes. Photogrammetric survey. Close range photogrammetry for architecture and documentation of cultural heritage. Terrestrial and airborne laser scanning.Mobile mapping systems.
Remote sensing. Cadastre of real estate. Fundamentals of cartography, map works in the Czech republic. Geographical information systems.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

1

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Jiří Vondrák, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Geodesy (GED)

Entry knowledge

Knowledges of secondery school

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

To obtain knowledge of part of geodesy having relation to designing, realisation and documentation of bulilding structures.
The students obtain knowledge of part of geodesy, that can use for designing, realisation and documentation of bulilding structures.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Nařízení vlády č. 159/2023 Sb. o stanovení geodetických referenčních systémů a státních mapových děl závazných na území státu a zásadách jejich používání, v platném znění, 2023 (CS)
Bartoněk, D.: Územní informační systémy. M1, M2. Elektronické studijní opory, 2010 (CS)
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)
STANĚK, Vlastimil a HOSTINOVÁ, Gabriela a KOPÁČIK Aloiz: Geodézia v stavebníctve, 2007, ISBN 978-80-8076-048-9 (SK)
TORGE, Wolfgang: Geodesy, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-087995-7 (EN)

Recommended reading

Evropský parlament: Směrnice Evropského Parlamentu a Rady 2007/2/ES, 2007 (CS)
Paul R. Wolf, Charles D. Ghilani: Elementary Surveying - an introduction to geomatics, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice-Hall 2002. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-APS Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme CZV1-AKR Lifelong learning

    specialization PBC , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Jiří Vondrák, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. The role of geodesy in the field architecture. Introduction, units, historical development.
  • 2. Datums and controls in the Czech republic. Coordinate systems and reference frames. Global navigation satellite systems.
  • 3. Direction, angel and distance measurements.
  • 4. Mapping - geodetical methods. Survey of building for reconstruction.Survey instruments.
  • 5. Measurement of hights,digital terrain model.
  • 6. Coordinate calculation.
  • 7. Setting out works. Determination of displacements and deformations of structures. Determination areas and volumes.
  • 8. Special works in civil engineering and industry.
  • 9. Cadastre of real estates.
  • 10. Laser scanning. Photogrammetric survey. Remote sensing.
  • 11. Princeples of cartography. Maps in the Czech republic.
  • 12. Geogaphical information systems. Building information model.
  • 13. Recapitulation.