Course Details

Geodesy 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BEA003 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-GK Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

8 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, 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.