Course Details

Engineering Geodesy 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BEA021 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-GK Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Otakar Švábenský, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289966

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, basic terms, model of measurement, theory of accuracy analysis.
  • 2. Methodology of accuracy analysis of angle and distance measurement and setting out.
  • 3. Methodology of accuracy analysis of heights measurement and setting out. Horizontal and plumb line setting out of .
  • 4. Accuracy analyses and procedures of basic methods of horizontal position setting out.
  • 5. Accuracy analyses and procedures of other methods of horizontal position setting out.
  • 6. Basic terms of geodesy for construction. Setting out and check surveying of structures. Legal prescriptions and standards. Setting out drawings.
  • 7. Division of geodetic works between the construction participants. Primary systems of structures. Setting out of secondary systems of building objects.
  • 8. Geodesy for building construction. Detail setting out for main construction technologies.
  • 9. Geodesy for road and railway construction. Basic terminology. Geodetic works in preparation and designing of transportation structures.
  • 10. Setting out of roads and railways. Setting out of arcs and transition curves. Longitudinal and transversal profile.
  • 11. Setting out and measurement of underground structures.
  • 12. Deformation measurements of structures. Measurement methods of vertical and horizontal deformations.
  • 13. Progressive measuring technologies in engineerin geodesy. Satellite methods. Laser scanning.

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, conditions for credit obtaining, fundamentals of engineering geodesy.
  • 2. Accuracy analyses - data sets, basic accuracy characteristics, testing of measurement results.
  • 3. Accuracy analyses of measurement and setting out of angles.
  • 4. Measurement of direction sets, introduction of corrections for steep sightlines - theoretical analysis and practical surveying.
  • 5. Setting out of an angle with defined accuracy - theoretical analysis and practical surveying.
  • 6. Measurement and setting out of distances with electronic distance meters, accuracy analysis and practical surveying.
  • 7. Measurement and setting out of distances by taping, accuracy analysis and practical surveying.
  • 8. Polar method of horizontal setting out, elements, setting out sketch and accuracy analysis.
  • 9. Free stationing method of horizontal setting out, accuracy analyses.
  • 10. Elevation setting out by leveling and trigonometric method, accuracy analyses.
  • 11. Setting out drawing of building structure, work with technical standards, elements of setting out.
  • 12. Setting out drawing of linear structure, work with technical standards, circular arc, elements of setting out.
  • 13. Final check of fulfilling the credit conditions, granting of credits.