Course Details

Digital terrain model

Academic Year 2025/26

NEA041 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-GK Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Dalibor Bartoněk, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295965

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Digital terrain modeling, motivation.
  • 2. Methods of data collection, aerial scanning and scanning.
  • 3. Unmanned aerial vehicles and their use for terrain modeling.
  • 4. Principles of digital representation of terrain relief, interpolation and triangulation.
  • 5. Principles of digital representation of terrain relief, interpolation and triangulation.
  • 6. Principles of digital representation of terrain relief, interpolation and triangulation.
  • 7. Features and properties of digital terrain representation.
  • 8. Features and properties of digital terrain representation.
  • 9. Spatial analyses, slope and orientation, visibility.
  • 10. Spatial analyses, slope and orientation, visibility.
  • 11. Spatial analyses, slope and orientation, visibility.
  • 12. Modelling of buildings and vegetation
  • 13. Application of terrain models in industry, agriculture and other segments.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Working with point cloud, preparation for terrain modelling.
  • 2. Working with point cloud, preparation for terrain modelling.
  • 3. Creation of digital relief model in SW for GIS.
  • 4. Creating a digital surface model (including buildings and vegetation) in a SW for GIS.
  • 5. Creation of normalized surface model and height extraction of objects (buildings, trees).
  • 6. Application and analysis of 3D spatial model in SW for GIS.
  • 7. Application and analysis of 3D spatial model in SW for GIS.
  • 8. Terrain modelling in SW for engineering purposes.
  • 9. Creation of land relief model for SW for engineering tasks including defining breaklines, polygons, etc.
  • 10. Creation of land relief model for SW for engineering tasks including defining breaklines, polygons, etc.
  • 11. Water body relief model for volume calculation and height comparison.
  • 12. Water body relief model for volume calculation and height comparison.
  • 13. Application of digital model terrain.