Geodetic-surveying Applications

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Metrology (Introduction, errors, checking and calibration, ISO standards)
• Special levelling methods (precise levelling, digital levelling, special trigonometric levelling, heighting with GPS)
• Underground Surveying (optical and mechanical methods, gyro-theodolite, line and level)
• Laser Scanning (Principles of 3D Laser Scanning, principles of pulsed time of flight TLS technology and Georeferencing in TLS, Issues in Laser Scanning)
• Special Construction Stakeout Surveys (Introduction, Construction Stakeout Fundamentals, Levelling methods, basic procedures, office and field preparations and procedures, errors in Stakeout Surveys)
• Cultural Heritage Surveying (The aims of a cultural heritage survey, basic methods of cultural heritage surveying)

 

General Competences

After completion of the course students will be able to design and implement special geodetic and surveying methodologies and techniques required for design, construction and monitoring of technical projects, industrial applications in surveying underground works and cultural heritage documentation. Also, they will become familiar with state-of-the-art geodetic equipment and techniques in order to be able to apply them in a number of geodetic applications.

 

SYLLABUS

1. Metrology
2. Special levelling methods
3. Underground Surveying
4. Laser Scanning
5. Special Construction Stakeout
6. Cultural Heritage Surveying

 

STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Language of evaluation: Greek or English
Methods of evaluation:
Final exam (60%) which includes open- ended questions and problem solving
Laboratory work (40%)

 

ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Allan A.L., Hollwey J.R., Maynes J.H.B., Amin A., 1980. Practical Field Surveying and Computations. Heinmann, Portsmouth (USA).
2. Baarda W., 1967. Statistical Concepts in Geodesy. Netherlands Geodetic Commission, Publications on Geodesy, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 4, Delft.
3. Heritage G., Large A., 2009. Laser scanning for the environmental sciences. Wiley- Blackwell.
4. Howard P., 2007. Archeological Surveying and mapping. Recording and depicting the landscape. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York.
5. Mikhail E. M., Gracie G., 1981. Analysis and Adjustment of Survey Measurements. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
6. Shan J., Toth Ch., 2008. Topographic laser ranging and scanning. Principles and processing. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group