Course Details

Geodesy 2

Academic Year 2025/26

BEA004 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-GK Summer Semester 1st year

Geodetic horizontal and vertical control networks, auxiliary measuring networks (development, marking of points). Height systems in CR and their development. Methods of horizontal and vertical surveying, creation of control and network. Coordinate calculations. Positional accuracy. Levelling and trigonometric determination of elevation. Methods of horizontal and vertical detail survey – polar (and orthogonal) methods, surface levelling and tacheometry. Calculation of area, cubage, survey of grade line. Basic requirements of data processing and outputs of surveying activities (including technical reports).

Credits

6 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Ing. Jiří Vondrák, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Fundamentals of mathematics, geometry and physic. Principles of basic geodetic measurements and computations.

Aims

Mastering of basic methods measurements and calculations in horizontal and vertical control and networks.
The student will be able to master basic methods of measurements and calculations in horizontal and vertical control especially measurement elevation and survey data processing.

Basic Literature

CARY, Edward Richard: Geodetic Surveying, 2016, 978-1362594871 (en)
Paul R. Wolf, Charles D. Ghilani: Elementary Surveying - an introduction to geomatics, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice-Hall 2002. (en)
FIŠER, Zdeněk et al.: Mapování, CERM Brno s. r. o. 2. vydání, 2006, ISBN 80-7204-472-9 (cs)
Cimbálník, M., Mervart: Vyšší geodézie 1, ČVUT Praha, 1997 (cs)
FORAL, Jakub, KALVODA, Petr, KRATOCHVÍL, Richard, ŠVÁB, Tomáš a VONDRÁK, Jiří: Geodetická příručka, část II, výpočty, mapy, katastr nemovitostí, fotogrammetrie, GPS, 2008 (cs)
Heribert Kahmen: Angewandte Geodasie Vermessungs-kunde. Walter de Gruyter and Co., Berlin, 2006. (de)

Recommended Reading

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)
ČSN 01 3411. Mapy velkých měřítek: Kreslení a značky, Praha: Vydavatelství norem, 1990 (cs)
Štrba, A.: Všeobecná fyzika, Alfa-SNTL Bratislava 1979 (sk)
Maršíková M., Maršík Z.: Dějiny zeměměřictví a pozemkových úprav v Čechách a na Moravě v kontextu světového vývoje. Libri s. r. o. Praha, 2023. (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289949

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic concepts and information about heights.
  • 2. Geometric levelling.
  • 3. Surface levelling, basic methods of survey and terrain display.
  • 4. Area, cubage, survey of grade line.
  • 5. Trigonometric height survey. Refraction influence.
  • 6. Methods of detailed data collection, tacheometry.
  • 7. Spread of electromagnetic signal through the atmosphere.
  • 8. Processing of geodetic survey in control, finish elaborate, technical report.
  • 9. Control of the Czech Republic.
  • 10. Survey and processing of simple network.

The course is full of lectures available on the e-learning on Moodle.

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Traverses.
  • 2. Second Automated calculation of a point (primarily software Groma).
  • 3. Levelling instruments. Control of the Czech Republic.
  • 4. Levelling, technical levelling.
  • 5. Surface levelling, basic methods of survey and terrain display.
  • 6. Trigonometric measurement of heights over long distances (curvature of Earth, influence of environment).
  • 7. Determining the location (spatial) of an inaccessible point.
  • 8. Tacheometry.
  • 9. Marking of points of point fields and auxiliary measuring networks. Processing of geodetic measurements, completion of the report, technical report.
  • 10. Credit.