Course Details
Geodesy 1
Academic Year 2024/25
BEA003 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-GK Winter Semester 1st year
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.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 4 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Elementary terms and principles of geodesy.
2. Simple measuring tools and working with them, basic marking of a horizontal plane (levels), vertical (plumb and string), straight lines (especially "by eye") and right angles.
3. Total station and theodolite – constructional parts, instrument optics.
4. Measurement of horizontal directions and angles.
5. Geometric optics, fundamentals of wave optics.
6. Principles and methods of length measurement, tape length measurement, overview of previously used optical methods of length measurement (especially parallactic angle).
7. Electronic measurement of lengths (electronic distance meters, total stations), indirect trigonometric measurement of lengths.
8. Basics of cartographic projection, coordinate systems, conversion of measured quantities to a reference surface (to the plane of cartographic display).
9. Coordinate computation.
10. Orientation displacement and its use (including verification of the identity of points), intersection from angles, lengths and oriented directions (including intersection from oriented directions).
11. Back intersection, orthogonal method and other methods of determining point coordinates - measured elements and calculation.
12. Polygons, measurement technology and processing of measured data.
13. Transformations in the plane (primarily similarity, similarity and affine).
The course is full of lectures available on the e-learning.
Exercise
13 weeks, 4 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Elementary terms and principles of geodesy.
2. Simple measuring tools and working with them, basic marking of a horizontal plane (levels), vertical (plumb and string), straight lines (especially "by eye") and right angles.
3. Total station and theodolite – constructional parts, instrument optics.
4. Measurement of horizontal directions and angles.
5. Geometric optics, fundamentals of wave optics.
6. Principles and methods of length measurement, tape length measurement, overview of previously used optical methods of length measurement (especially parallactic angle).
7. Electronic measurement of lengths (electronic distance meters, total stations), trigonometric measurement of lengths.
8. Basics of cartographic projection, coordinate systems, conversion of measured quantities to a reference surface (to the plane of cartographic display).
9. Coordinate computation.
10. Orientation displacement and its use (including verification of the identity of points), intersection from angles, lengths and oriented directions (including intersection from oriented directions).
11. Back intersection, orthogonal method and other methods of determining point coordinates - measured elements and calculation.
12. Polygons, measurement technology and processing of measured data.
13. Transformations in the plane (primarily similarity, similarity and affine).
The course is full of lectures available on the e-learning.