Course Details

Geodesy and Cartography

Academic Year 2025/26

BEA028 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Jiří Vondrák, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

1 credit

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289644

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. The role of geodesy in the field architecture. Introduction, units, historical development.
  • 2. Datums and controls in the Czech republic. Coordinate systems and reference frames. Global navigation satellite systems.
  • 3. Direction, angel and distance measurements.
  • 4. Mapping - geodetical methods. Survey of building for reconstruction.Survey instruments.
  • 5. Measurement of hights,digital terrain model.
  • 6. Coordinate calculation.
  • 7. Setting out works. Determination of displacements and deformations of structures. Determination areas and volumes.
  • 8. Special works in civil engineering and industry.
  • 9. Cadastre of real estates.
  • 10. Laser scanning. Photogrammetric survey. Remote sensing.
  • 11. Princeples of cartography. Maps in the Czech republic.
  • 12. Geogaphical information systems. Building information model.
  • 13. Recapitulation.