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Margherita FIANI GEOMATICS

0612500052
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
EQF6
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
2022/2023

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 3
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2018
AUTUMN SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
660LESSONS
MARGHERITA FIANI T Curriculum
Objectives
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCE TO BE ACQUIRED:
BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF GEODESY ELEMENTS, REFERENCE SYSTEMS AND COORDINATES. KNOWLEDGE OF THE THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL BASES FOR THE USE OF TOPOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION IN THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES, DISTANCES AND HEIGHT DIFFERENCES AND FOR THE USE OF PRECISION SATELLITE POSITIONING TECHNIQUES. KNOWLEDGE OF THE METHODS OF STATISTICAL TREATMENT OF THE MEASUREMENTS BY USING SIMPLE NETWORK SURVEY SCHEMES.
KNOWLEDGE OF THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE THEORY OF CARTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS, IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO USE CARTOGRAPHIC MAPS AT DIFFERENT SCALES.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING SKILLS:
SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF MATH, GEOMETRY, ALGEBRA AND PHYSICS (TRIGONOMETRY, CALCULATION OF DERIVATIVES, SERIES DEVELOPMENT), SIMPLE NOTIONS OF MATRIX CALCULATION, CONSERVATIVE FORCE, FORCE POTENTIAL, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES).
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
BEING ABLE TO CARRY OUT BASIC WORK IN THE FIELD OF TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYING.
SKILLS AND OPERATIVE AUTONOMY ON TECHNICAL AND MANAGEMENT TASKS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BODIES. INSTRUMENTAL AND NUMERICAL EXERCISES TO APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED DURING THE FRONTAL LESSONS WILL BE A KEY ELEMENT.
AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT:
TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE MOST APPROPRIATE METHODS TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND DEVELOP OPERATIONAL AND EVALUATIVE SKILLS FOR THE USE OF INSTRUMENTS AND DATA ANALYSIS. 
COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
BEING ABLE TO USE TECHNICAL LANGUAGE.
ABILITY TO LEARN:
BEING ABLE TO MONITOR THE EVOLUTION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD.
Prerequisites
IN ORDER TO SUCCESSFULLY ATTEND THE COURSE, THE STUDENT SHOULD POSSESS BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF MATHEMATICS, GEOMETRY AND ALGEBRA, PHYSICS (TRIGONOMETRY, CALCULUS OF DERIVATIVES, SERIES EXPANSIONS, SIMPLE NOTIONS OF MATRIX CALCULATION, CONSERVATIVE FORCE, THE POTENTIAL OF THE FORCE, ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES).
Contents
INTRODUCTION:
PRINCIPLES OF SURVEY; DEFINITIONS; MEASUREMENT AND THEIR UNITS; PRECISION AND ACCURACY IN SURVEYING.
GEODESY:
SHAPE OF THE EARTH; EARTH GRAVITY FIELD; EQUIPOTENTIAL SURFACES; GEOID; DEFINITION OF HEIGHT; REFERENCE ELLIPSOID; GEOID UNDULATIONS; COORDINATE SYSTEMS: NATURAL, GEOCENTRIC, ELLIPSOIDAL; GEOMETRY OF THE ELLIPSOID OF ROTATION; NORMAL SECTIONS; PRINCIPAL CURVATURES; GEODESIC; REFERENCE SURFACES USED TO APPROXIMATE THE ELLIPSOID; GEODETIC NETWORKS AND DATUM; HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL DATUM; DATUM USED IN ITALY; GEODETIC, ASTRONOMICAL, CARTESIAN GEOCENTRIC, CARTESIAN LOCAL COORDINATES; COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS; TRANSFORMATIONS BETWEEN DATUM; PRACTICAL GEODETIC PROBLEMS.
THEORY OF ERRORS AND STATISTICAL TREATMENT OF OBSERVATIONS:
TYPES OF MEASUREMENT ERRORS: GROSS, SYSTEMATIC AND RANDOM; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; NORMAL (GAUSSIAN) DISTRIBUTION; ESTIMATION OF CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETERS OF A DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; STANDARDIZED VARIABLES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLES; COVARIANCE AND CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; PROPAGATION OF VARIANCE-COVARIANCE; APPLICATIONS TO SURVEYING PROBLEMS; METHOD OF LEAST SQUARES; ADJUSTMENT WITH THE METHOD OF INDIRECT OBSERVATIONS.
CARTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS:
THE PROBLEM OF MAP PROJECTIONS; DEFORMATION MODULES; ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO MAP PROJECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION OF MAP PROJECTIONS; CONFORMAL PROJECTIONS; THE CONFORMAL GAUSS MAP AND ITS GEODETIC USE; CONTRACTED COORDINATES AND MODULES EXPRESSIONS; THE ITALIAN OFFICIAL CARTOGRAPHY; COORDINATES MEASUREMENT ON THE MAP OF ITALY AT THE SCALE OF 1:25000; THE UTM-UPS MAPPING SYSTEM.
SURVEYING:
NATIONAL GEODETIC NETWORKS: PLANIMETRIC, LEVELING, IGM95 NETWORKS; REFERENCE, THICKENING AND LOCAL NETWORKS; PLANIMETRIC SURVEY, REDUCTION OF DISTANCES TO THE REFERENCE SURFACE; MAIN SURVEYING SCHEMES: TRIANGULATION, INTERSECTION AND RADIATION METHODS, OPEN AND CLOSED TRAVERSES, DETAILED SURVEY; VERTICAL SURVEY: ORTHOMETRIC AND NORMAL HEIGHTS, REFERENCE SURFACES; TRIGONOMETRIC AND GEOMETRIC LEVELING: SCHEME, INSTRUMENTATION, ACCURACY; PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF GPS SURVEYING, SESSIONS AND INDEPENDENT BASELINES, BASELINES COMPUTATION, TRANSFORMATION IN THE NATIONAL REFERENCE SYSTEM; DESIGN, PLANNING, MATERIALIZATION, SURVEYING AND ADJUSTMENT OF PLANIMETRIC, LEVELING AND GPS NETWORKS.
INSTRUMENTATION AND OPERATIONAL METHODS:
MEASURE OF ANGLES; THEODOLITES; MAIN COMPONENTS: TELESCOPE, VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL CIRCLES, CIRCLE READING AND OPTICAL MICROMETER, OPTICAL PLUMB; SETTING UP; READING METHOD OF AZIMUTH ANGLES; BESSEL’S METHOD; ZENITH ANGLES; ELECTRONIC THEODOLITES; MEASURE OF DISTANCES; GEODIMETERS: OPERATING PRINCIPLE, FUNDAMENTAL EQUATION, ACCURACY OF A GEODIMETER; TOTAL STATIONS; LEVELING; LEVELS, TYPES OF LEVELS, MAIN COMPONENTS: TELESCOPE, LEVEL PLUMBS, LEVELING SCREWS; BESSEL’S METHOD; INVAR STADIA.
GNSS:
BASIC CONCEPTS, GPS CONSTELLATION AND CONTROL SEGMENT; GPS SIGNAL STRUCTURE; GPS BIASES AND ERRORS; GPS RECEIVERS; WGS84; PSEUDO-RANGE AND CARRIER PHASE MEASUREMENTS; GPS MODERNIZATION; OTHER GNSS SYSTEMS.
Teaching Methods
THE COURSE CONSISTS OF LECTURES, CLASS EXERCISES AND PRACTICAL FIELD MEASUREMENTS.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES IS TWOFOLD:
THE COURSE CONSISTS OF LECTURES, CLASS EXERCISES AND PRACTICAL FIELD MEASUREMENTS.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES IS TWOFOLD:
- MAKE THE STUDENT FAMILIAR WITH THE LAND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;
- DEVELOP THE STUDENT'S ABILITY TO ADAPT THE SURVEYING SCHEME TO THE REAL CONDITIONS.
Verification of learning
THE EXAM AT THE END OF THE COURSE AIMS TO ASSESS THE ACHIEVEMENT OF LEARNING OBJECTIVES, IN PARTICULAR CONCERNING THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS:
- ELEMENTS OF GEODESY;
- COORDINATE AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS;
- THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL BASIS FOR THE USE OF LAND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS FOR ANGLES, DISTANCES AND HEIGHT DIFFERENCES MEASUREMENTS AND FOR THE USE OF GLOBAL SATELLITES POSITIONING SYSTEMS;
- STATISTICAL TREATMENT OF SIMPLE SURVEY NETWORKS;
- INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS OF THE THEORY OF MAPPING REPRESENTATIONS, IN ORDER TO KNOW HOW TO USE CARTOGRAPHIC LAYERS AT DIFFERENT SCALES.
Texts
LECTURE NOTES FROM THE COURSE TEACHER. THE EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL PRESENTED IN CLASS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE STUDENT IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT VIA INTERNET. USERNAME AND PASSWORD ARE RESERVED FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO.
ADDITIONAL TEXTS:
G. INGHILLERI, L. SOLAINI. TOPOGRAFIA. LEVROTTO & BELLA, 1997.
G. FOLLONI. PRINCIPI DI TOPOGRAFIA – PATRON, 1982
More Information
INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN SURVEYING AND MAPPING SUCH AS OPTICAL-READING THEODOLITES, ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL LEVELS, ELECTRONIC DISTANCE MEASURING EQUIPMENT, TOTAL STATIONS, TERRESTRIAL LASER SYSTEMS AND GEODETIC GPS, WILL BE DESCRIBED AND USED DURING THE COURSE. DESCRIPTION OF SURVEYING INSTRUMENTATION AND FIELD ACTIVITIES ARE INTEGRAL PART OF THE COURSE.
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