Course Details
Cartography I
Academic Year 2024/25
GE18 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
7 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Definition and structure of cartography.
2. Geometrical base of cartographic works, projections.
3. Contents of cartographic works.
4. Theory of cartographic information.
5. Cartographic interpretation and generalization.
6. Cartographic creation and production.
7. Themathic cartography. Cartometry.
8. Digital cartography.
9. Geographical information systems, modelling of objects, data-bases.
10. State map works in the Czech republic, devlopment Czech and world cartography, legislative.
Exercise
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1-2 State map, map frame and kilometer networks construction.
3-4 Stable cadastre, digital processing of structural sheet map.
5-6 Base Map of the Czech Republic, creating of sign key.
7-8 Digital cadastral map, transform, vectorization.
9-10 Processing of configuration and plot files, printing.
11 Control test