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.

Credits

8 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Ing. Jiří Vondrák, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Elementary knowledge of mathematics, geometry, physics ang geographic. Basic knowledge of terminology and descriptions of the landscape orientation in the field.

Aims

Getting an overview of subjects of geodesy. Acquaintance with basic principles, methods and processing of geodetic angle and distance measurements.
Student gets an overview of geodesy. Acquaintance with basic principles, methods and processing of geodetic angle and distance measurements. Student gets an overview of terminology for consequential courses.

Basic Literature

TORGE, Wolfgang: Geodesy, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-087995-7 (en)
Paul R. Wolf, Charles D. Ghilani: Elementary Surveying - an introduction to geomatics, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice-Hall 2002. (en)
Vaniček, P., Krakivsky, E.: Geodesy: The Concepts, NorthHolland, Amsterdam 1980. (en)
Banerjee, P. P., Ting-Chung Poon: Principles of applied optics, Homewood, Aksen Associates Incorp.Irwin, 1991 (en)
IRVINE, William: Surveying for Construction, London: McGraw-Hill, 1995, ISBN 978-0077079987 (en)
Ratiborský,J.: Geodézie, ČVUT Praha, 1998 (cs)
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)
CARY, Edward Richard: Geodetic Surveying, 2016, 978-1362594871 (en)
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)

Recommended Reading

Nevosád, Z., Soukup, F., Vitásek, J.: Gedodézie II, VUTIUM Brno, 1999 (cs)
Evropský parlament: Směrnice Evropského Parlamentu a Rady 2007/2/ES, 2007 (cs)
STANĚK, Vlastimil a HOSTINOVÁ, Gabriela a KOPÁČIK Aloiz: Geodézia v stavebníctve, 2007, ISBN 978-80-8076-048-9 (sk)
Abelovič, J. a kol.: Meranie v geodetických. sieťach, ALFA Bratislava, 1990 (sk)
Hradílek, L.: Vysokohorská geodézie, Academia Praha, 1984 (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/281547

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.