Course Details

Structural and Industry Geodesy

Academic Year 2025/26

NEB028 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Otakar Švábenský, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295875

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic terms of structural geodesy. Measurement errors, accuracy measures of 1D and 2D quantities.
  • 2. Fundamentals of setting out accuracy analyses. Precise methods of angle and distance measurements.
  • 3. Precise levelling. Setting out of angles, distances, and heights.
  • 4. Basic methods of horizontal and vertical setting out.
  • 5. Setting out drawings. Setting out control networks. Geodesy in designing and realization of structures.
  • 6. Deformation measurements of structures.
  • 7. Progresive geodetic measuring technologies (Global satellite navigation systems, Laser sscanning, Photogrammetry).

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, measures of precision, confidence intervals.
  • 2. Accuracy analyses calculations of measurement and setting out.
  • 3. Precise measurement of angles, parallactic method of distance measurement.
  • 4. Precise leveling.
  • 5. Indirect surveying of inaccessible distance.
  • 6. GNSS measurement.
  • 7. Check of fulfilling the credit conditions, final test, granting of credits.