Course detail

Geodesy 2

FAST-BEA004Acad. year: 2025/2026

Geodetic horizontal and vertical control networks, auxiliary measuring networks (development, marking of points). Height systems in CR and their development. Methods of horizontal and vertical surveying, creation of control and network. Coordinate calculations. Positional accuracy. Levelling and trigonometric determination of elevation. Methods of horizontal and vertical detail survey – polar (and orthogonal) methods, surface levelling and tacheometry. Calculation of area, cubage, survey of grade line. Basic requirements of data processing and outputs of surveying activities (including technical reports).

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Jiří Vondrák, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Geodesy (GED)

Entry knowledge

Fundamentals of mathematics, geometry and physic. Principles of basic geodetic measurements and computations.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Mastering of basic methods measurements and calculations in horizontal and vertical control and networks.
The student will be able to master basic methods of measurements and calculations in horizontal and vertical control especially measurement elevation and survey data processing.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

CARY, Edward Richard: Geodetic Surveying, 2016, 978-1362594871 (EN)
Cimbálník, M., Mervart: Vyšší geodézie 1, ČVUT Praha, 1997 (CS)
FIŠER, Zdeněk et al.: Mapování, CERM Brno s. r. o. 2. vydání, 2006, ISBN 80-7204-472-9 (CS)
FORAL, Jakub, KALVODA, Petr, KRATOCHVÍL, Richard, ŠVÁB, Tomáš a VONDRÁK, Jiří: Geodetická příručka, část II, výpočty, mapy, katastr nemovitostí, fotogrammetrie, GPS, 2008 (CS)
Heribert Kahmen: Angewandte Geodasie Vermessungs-kunde. Walter de Gruyter and Co., Berlin, 2006. (DE)
Paul R. Wolf, Charles D. Ghilani: Elementary Surveying - an introduction to geomatics, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice-Hall 2002. (EN)

Recommended reading

ČSN 01 3411. Mapy velkých měřítek: Kreslení a značky, Praha: Vydavatelství norem, 1990 (CS)
Maršíková M., Maršík Z.: Dějiny zeměměřictví a pozemkových úprav v Čechách a na Moravě v kontextu světového vývoje. Libri s. r. o. Praha, 2023. (CS)
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)
Štrba, A.: Všeobecná fyzika, Alfa-SNTL Bratislava 1979 (SK)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-GK Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Jiří Vondrák, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic concepts and information about heights.
  • 2. Geometric levelling.
  • 3. Surface levelling, basic methods of survey and terrain display.
  • 4. Area, cubage, survey of grade line.
  • 5. Trigonometric height survey. Refraction influence.
  • 6. Methods of detailed data collection, tacheometry.
  • 7. Spread of electromagnetic signal through the atmosphere.
  • 8. Processing of geodetic survey in control, finish elaborate, technical report.
  • 9. Control of the Czech Republic.
  • 10. Survey and processing of simple network.

The course is full of lectures available on the e-learning on Moodle.

Exercise

39 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Jiří Vondrák, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Radovan Machotka, Ph.D.
Ing. Ondřej Vystavěl

Syllabus

  • 1. Traverses.
  • 2. Second Automated calculation of a point (primarily software Groma).
  • 3. Levelling instruments. Control of the Czech Republic.
  • 4. Levelling, technical levelling.
  • 5. Surface levelling, basic methods of survey and terrain display.
  • 6. Trigonometric measurement of heights over long distances (curvature of Earth, influence of environment).
  • 7. Determining the location (spatial) of an inaccessible point.
  • 8. Tacheometry.
  • 9. Marking of points of point fields and auxiliary measuring networks. Processing of geodetic measurements, completion of the report, technical report.
  • 10. Credit.