Course Details
Speleological Mapping
Academic Year 2026/27
NEB052 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-GK Summer Semester 2nd year
Karst as a natural and scientific phenomenon. The Moravian Karst and its subdivision. Organization of speleologists in Czech Republic and in the world, specifics of speleological mapping, underground survey points, used measurement instruments and aids, specifics of magnetic azimuths measurement, procedure of documentation work, surveying methods, processing methods, field surveying in a karst cave, processsing.
Credits
3 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
Entry Knowledge
General principles of geography and geodesy. Engineering geodesy methods applied to surveying in underground spaces.
Aims
Acquaintance with problems of karst phenomena, its classification and preservation. Getting practical knowledge in field of speleological mapping.
Student will be introduced with teoretical karsologie and practical speleologie, especially with speleological mapping.
Prerequisites
General principles of geography and geodesy. Engineering geodesy methods applied to surveying in underground spaces.
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Purpose and content of the subject, requiements for obtaining the credit, information sources. Organization of field excursion. Organization of speleologists in Czech Republic and in the world. Specifics of speleological mapping. Underground survey points.
- 2. Used measurement instruments and aids.
- 3. Specifics of magnetic azimuths measurement. Procedure of documentation work, surveying methods.
- 4. Procedure of documentation work, processing methods.
- 5.-7. Field surveying in a karst cave.
- 8.-9. Processsing.
- 10. Checking fulfilment requirements and granting credits.