Course detail

Structural and Industry Geodesy

FAST-NEB028Acad. year: 2025/2026

Basic terms of structural geodesy.
Measurement errors, accuracy measures of 1D and 2D quantities, fundamentals of setting out accuracy analyses.
Precise methods of angle, distance, and height measurements.
Horizontal and vertical setting out methodology. Setting out drawings.
Setting out control networks.
Geodesy in designing and construction phases of structures.
Deformation measurements of structures.
Contemporary progressive geodetic measuring technologies (Global satellite navigation systems, Laser scanning).

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Otakar Švábenský, CSc.

Department

Institute of Geodesy (GED)

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of mathematics and geodesy.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Extended knowledge of geodesy in civil engineering.

Extended knowledge of students about geodesy in civil engineering.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPC-SIK Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Otakar Švábenský, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic terms of structural geodesy. Measurement errors, accuracy measures of 1D and 2D quantities.
  • 2. Fundamentals of setting out accuracy analyses. Precise methods of angle and distance measurements.
  • 3. Precise levelling. Setting out of angles, distances, and heights.
  • 4. Basic methods of horizontal and vertical setting out.
  • 5. Setting out drawings. Setting out control networks. Geodesy in designing and realization of structures.
  • 6. Deformation measurements of structures.
  • 7. Progresive geodetic measuring technologies (Global satellite navigation systems, Laser sscanning, Photogrammetry).

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Otakar Švábenský, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, measures of precision, confidence intervals.
  • 2. Accuracy analyses calculations of measurement and setting out.
  • 3. Precise measurement of angles, parallactic method of distance measurement.
  • 4. Precise leveling.
  • 5. Indirect surveying of inaccessible distance.
  • 6. GNSS measurement.
  • 7. Check of fulfilling the credit conditions, final test, granting of credits.