GEOMATICS, BASIC COURSE | TEK270 |
Aim
The aim of the course is to get basic knowledge of concepts and methodologies within geodesy, surveying, cartography and photogrammetry as well as management and analysis of geographical data with geographic information systems (GIS).
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
Contents
Lectures cover the basic theory of cartography, spatial phenomena, geographical data and analysis, the fundamentals of geodesy, geodetic surveying and an introduction to photogrammetry. Basic geostatistics and quality aspects represented by error propagation theory are also treated. Through field surveying and exercises in geodetic computation followed by a number of practical exercises with GIS, the students learn how to collect geographical data, structure it, perform basic geographical analysis and finally present geographical information. He/she will also get an overview of geographical data bases used by governmental and municipal authorities, the main usage of these data bases and how their quality can be described. In an extensive application exercise the students collect and compile data from different national and regional data distributors, compile the data and execute analysis relevant for surveying purposes.
Literature
Eklundh L. (red.), Geografisk informationsbehandling - metoder och tillämpningar. 4:e revid. upplagan. Formas, Stockholm. 2005. ISBN: 91-540-5841 4.
Ollvik, L. och Gunnarsson, J.: Kompendium i geodetisk mätningsteknik, Allmän kurs., Avd för Geodetisk mätningsteknik, LTH, Lund.
Avd för Geodetisk mätningsteknik, LTH: Formelsamling i geodesi med kartteknik.
Institutionen för Naturgeografi och Ekosystemanalys, Lunds universitet. Övningskompendie i GIS för Geomatik AK och How to....in ArcGIS. 2006.
Harrie, L., Statistical aspects of spatial interpolation.Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemanalys, Lunds universitet. 2006.
Code: 0107.
Name: Geomatics.
Higher education credits: 9.
Grading scale: UG.
Assessment: Result constitute the total course grade. Grading scale: TH.
Contents: Written examination in two parts: Part 1 contains the basic theory of, and practical computational skills within, geodesy and photogrammetry. This examination occurs after approximately 10 weeks of study and constitutes 40% of the overall written examination results. Part 2 contains the basic theory of GIS, geostatistics and quality aspect of geographical data. This part occurs at the end of the course and constitute 60% of the overall written examination results.
Code: 0207.
Name: Exercises and Assignments.
Higher education credits: 6.
Grading scale: UG.
Assessment: Passed compulsory practical exercises and assignments.
Contents: Practical exercises and assignments.
Code: 0307.
Name: Field Measurements and Application Exercises.
Higher education credits: 4,5.
Grading scale: UG.
Assessment: Passed application exercises, participation in field surveying and passed field report.
Contents: Geodetic field surveying and application exercises in GIS.