Conducted in terms:
Summer Semester 2007/08
Summer Semester 2008/09
Summer Semester 2009/10

ECTS credits: 6

Organized by: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences

Geodesy and Cartography GP2020

Course content: The part and the task of geodesy.
Maps and geodetic studies in local spatial planning.
Geodetic measuring apparatus.
Geodetic reference system.
The methods of map projections.
Geodetis coordinate systems.
Situation measurements - geodetic frames, measuring methods (rectangular method, polar method).
High measurements - high frames, measuring methods (geometrical levelling, trigonometrical levelling), terrain levelling.
GPS (Global Positioning System).
Economic maps, methods of cartographic presentation.
Measurements on maps (coordinates, lengths, fields of surface, volumes).
Photogrammetry and remoty sensing..

Learning outcomes:

Course coordinators

Term 2008L:

Andrzej Kobryń

Term 2009L:

Iwona Kosk

Bibliography

a) basic references:
1. Łyszkowicz A.: Geodezja czyli sztuka mierzenia Ziemi.
Wyd.UWM, Olsztyn 2006.
2. Jagielski A.: Geodezja I. Wyd. GEODPIS, Kraków 2005.
3. Jagielski A.: Geodezja II. Wyd. GEODPIS, Kraków 2007.
4. Elementy geodezji w pomiarach inżynierskich. Wyd.PB,
Białystok 1995. (praca zbiorowa)

b) supplementary references:
1. Przewłocki S.: Geodezja dla kierunków niegeodezyjnych.
Wyd. Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2002.