Course Details
Speleological Mapping
Academic Year 2023/24
NEB052 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-GK Summer Semester 2nd year
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.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Acquaintance with problems of karst phenomena, its classification and preservation. Getting practical knowledge in field of speleological mapping.
Knowledge
Student will be introduced with teoretical karsologie and practical speleologie, especially with speleological mapping. Student will create the map of part of cave.
Prerequisites
Fundaments of geography and surveying. Methods of suveying in underground spaces.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
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.