Margherita FIANI | NUMERIC CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS

cod. 0612500053

NUMERIC CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS

	0612500053
	DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
	EQF6
	CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
	2025/2026

PERCORSO CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Cohort 2024/2025

	YEAR OF COURSE 2
	YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2022
	SPRING SEMESTER

TEACHING UNITS

	SSD	CFU	HOURS	ACTIVITY	TYPE OF ACTIVITY
	ICAR/06	6	60	LESSONS	OPTIONAL SUBJECTS

PROFESSORS

	MARGHERITA FIANI T Curriculum
	ALESSANDRO DI BENEDETTO Curriculum

	Objectives
	EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCE TO BE ACQUIRED: BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRINCIPLES, METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS ON WHICH NUMERICAL CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS (GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM) ARE BASED, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS CONCERNING GEOREFERENCING, EDITING, UPDATING, MANAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION OF GRAPHIC FILES AND ALPHANUMERIC DATABASES. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING SKILLS: BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF TOPOGRAPHY AND IN PARTICULAR OF THE MAIN TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS USED IN ITALY AND THE WORLD AND THE ASSOCIATED CARTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS. ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: OPERATIONAL SKILLS TO CARRY OUT SOME BASIC OPERATIONS. ABILITY TO PRODUCE APPROPRIATE TERRITORIAL ANALYSIS THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION, INTERROGATION AND PROCESSING OF GEO-REFERENCED DATA. AUTONOMY OF JUDGEMENT: ABILITY TO MAKE APPROPRIATE CHOICES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA IN GIS ENVIRONMENT. COMMUNICATION SKILLS: BEING ABLE TO USE A TECHNICAL LANGUAGE. ABILITY TO LEARN: BEING ABLE TO MONITOR THE EVOLUTION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE ON THE SUBJECT.

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCE TO BE ACQUIRED:
BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRINCIPLES, METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS ON WHICH NUMERICAL CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS (GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM) ARE BASED, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS CONCERNING GEOREFERENCING, EDITING, UPDATING, MANAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION OF GRAPHIC FILES AND ALPHANUMERIC DATABASES.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING SKILLS:
BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF TOPOGRAPHY AND IN PARTICULAR OF THE MAIN TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS USED IN ITALY AND THE WORLD AND THE ASSOCIATED CARTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
OPERATIONAL SKILLS TO CARRY OUT SOME BASIC OPERATIONS. ABILITY TO PRODUCE APPROPRIATE TERRITORIAL ANALYSIS THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION, INTERROGATION AND PROCESSING OF GEO-REFERENCED DATA.
AUTONOMY OF JUDGEMENT:
ABILITY TO MAKE APPROPRIATE CHOICES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA IN GIS ENVIRONMENT.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
BEING ABLE TO USE A TECHNICAL LANGUAGE.
ABILITY TO LEARN:
BEING ABLE TO MONITOR THE EVOLUTION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE ON THE SUBJECT.

	Prerequisites
	IN ORDER TO SUCCESSFULLY ATTEND THE COURSE, THE STUDENT SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THE EXAM OF GEOMATICA OR OF TOPOGRAFIA.

	Contents
	PHOTOGRAMMETRY DEFINITION OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND APPLICATIONS. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NUMERICAL AND ANALOG MAPPING. THE CARTOGRAPHIC PROCESS. MATHEMATICAL MODEL. REFERENCE SYSTEMS. INTERNAL ORIENTATION OF A FRAME. CALIBRATION CERTIFICATE. AERIAL AND TERRESTRIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIC CAMERAS. ROTATIONS IN THE PLANE AND IN SPACE. EXTERNAL ORIENTATION OF A FRAME. COLLINEARITY EQUATIONS. RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE ORIENTATION. STEREOSCOPY. AERIAL TRIANGULATION. PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SURVEY. FLIGHT PLAN. DTM. PHOTOPLANS. ORTHOPHOTOS. BASIC ASPECTS OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY. HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES. NUMERICAL CARTOGRAPHY FUNCTIONS OF NUMERICAL MAPPING PRODUCTS. ACCURACY AND SCALE OF A NUMERICAL CARTOGRAPHIC ELEMENT. PRODUCTION PROCESS AND CONTROL. SPECIFICATIONS FOR NUMERICAL CARTOGRAPHY. QUALITY CONTROL AND TESTING OPERATIONS IN THE VARIOUS PHASES (FLIGHT, CLASSIFICATION, T.A., RETURN, RECONNAISSANCE, EDITING). REGIONAL AND MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL NUMERICAL CARTOGRAPHY: CONTENTS, SPECIFICATIONS AND TESTS. CARTOGRAPHIC DATABASE REPRESENTATION OF DIGITAL DATA. DATA FORMAT VECTOR. DATA IN RASTER FORMAT. DIRECT ACQUISITION OF VECTOR DATA. INDIRECT ACQUISITION OF VECTOR DATA. VECTORIZATION OF EXISTING MAPS. PROBLEMS OF CARTOGRAPHIC EDITING. INDIRECT ACQUISITION OF RASTER DATA. RASTERING OF CARTOGRAPHY. DATA QUALITY. GIS DEFINITION AND MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF TERRITORIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (SIT OR GIS). COMPONENTS OF A GIS. LEVELS OF COMPLEXITY. SPATIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN OBJECTS. TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONS. INTRODUCTION TO SW QGIS. ARCHIVING OF INFORMATION. DATABASES. DATA QUALITY. SPATIAL RESOLUTION. GEOREFERENCING OF DATA. GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS. TRANSFORMATIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROJECTIONS. QGIS: GENERAL SOFTWARE ASPECTS. RASTER AND VECTOR, IMPORT, GENERAL ASPECTS AND FORMATS. WMS SYSTEM AGENCY OF THE TERRITORY AND THE GEOPORTAL. MANAGEMENT OF 2D AND 3D LAYERS. OPEN SOURCE CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOREFERENCING OF A RASTER. METHODS OF DATA ORGANIZATION. TECHNIQUES OF DATA STRUCTURING AND ANALYSIS. THEMATIC MAPS. SCALE OF REPRESENTATION. SYMBOLISM AND VISUALIZATION. EXAMPLES OF THEMATIC MAPS. DERIVATIVE MAPS: SLOPE, EXPOSURE, TRI, ETC. USE OF GIS BY THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. WEB-GIS.

Contents

PHOTOGRAMMETRY
DEFINITION OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND APPLICATIONS. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NUMERICAL AND ANALOG MAPPING. THE CARTOGRAPHIC PROCESS. MATHEMATICAL MODEL. REFERENCE SYSTEMS. INTERNAL ORIENTATION OF A FRAME. CALIBRATION CERTIFICATE. AERIAL AND TERRESTRIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIC CAMERAS. ROTATIONS IN THE PLANE AND IN SPACE. EXTERNAL ORIENTATION OF A FRAME. COLLINEARITY EQUATIONS. RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE ORIENTATION. STEREOSCOPY. AERIAL TRIANGULATION. PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SURVEY. FLIGHT PLAN. DTM. PHOTOPLANS. ORTHOPHOTOS. BASIC ASPECTS OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY. HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES.
NUMERICAL CARTOGRAPHY
FUNCTIONS OF NUMERICAL MAPPING PRODUCTS. ACCURACY AND SCALE OF A NUMERICAL CARTOGRAPHIC ELEMENT. PRODUCTION PROCESS AND CONTROL. SPECIFICATIONS FOR NUMERICAL CARTOGRAPHY. QUALITY CONTROL AND TESTING OPERATIONS IN THE VARIOUS PHASES (FLIGHT, CLASSIFICATION, T.A., RETURN, RECONNAISSANCE, EDITING). REGIONAL AND MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL NUMERICAL CARTOGRAPHY: CONTENTS, SPECIFICATIONS AND TESTS.
CARTOGRAPHIC DATABASE
REPRESENTATION OF DIGITAL DATA. DATA FORMAT VECTOR. DATA IN RASTER FORMAT. DIRECT ACQUISITION OF VECTOR DATA. INDIRECT ACQUISITION OF VECTOR DATA. VECTORIZATION OF EXISTING MAPS. PROBLEMS OF CARTOGRAPHIC EDITING. INDIRECT ACQUISITION OF RASTER DATA. RASTERING OF CARTOGRAPHY. DATA QUALITY.
GIS
DEFINITION AND MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF TERRITORIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (SIT OR GIS). COMPONENTS OF A GIS. LEVELS OF COMPLEXITY. SPATIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN OBJECTS. TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONS.
INTRODUCTION TO SW QGIS. ARCHIVING OF INFORMATION. DATABASES. DATA QUALITY. SPATIAL RESOLUTION. GEOREFERENCING OF DATA. GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS. TRANSFORMATIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROJECTIONS. QGIS: GENERAL SOFTWARE ASPECTS. RASTER AND VECTOR, IMPORT, GENERAL ASPECTS AND FORMATS. WMS SYSTEM AGENCY OF THE TERRITORY AND THE GEOPORTAL. MANAGEMENT OF 2D AND 3D LAYERS. OPEN SOURCE CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOREFERENCING OF A RASTER. METHODS OF DATA ORGANIZATION. TECHNIQUES OF DATA STRUCTURING AND ANALYSIS. THEMATIC MAPS. SCALE OF REPRESENTATION. SYMBOLISM AND VISUALIZATION. EXAMPLES OF THEMATIC MAPS. DERIVATIVE MAPS: SLOPE, EXPOSURE, TRI, ETC. USE OF GIS BY THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. WEB-GIS.

	Teaching Methods
	THE COURSE CONSISTS OF LECTURES AND CLASS EXERCISES THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES IS TO MAKE THE STUDENT FAMILIAR WITH THE GIS SOFTWARE

	Verification of learning
	THE ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS COURSE IS BASED ON A SINGLE FINAL EXAMINATION, AIMED AT VERIFYING THE ACQUISITION OF THE EXPECTED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS. THE EXAM CONSISTS OF TWO COMPONENTS: A PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT AND A WRITTEN TEST. THE PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT INVOLVES THE EXECUTION AND DOCUMENTATION OF SPECIFIC GIS OPERATIONS, SELECTED FROM THOSE COVERED DURING THE COURSE. IN PARTICULAR, STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO PRESENT THE SETUP AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE OR MORE TYPICAL TASKS, SUCH AS: GEOREFERENCING OF CARTOGRAPHIC RASTER FILES, EDITING AND MANAGING VECTOR LAYERS, PERFORMING SPATIAL QUERIES ON GEOREFERENCED DATA, CONDUCTING THEMATIC AND/OR SPATIAL ANALYSES USING GIS TOOLS, AND PRODUCING FINAL MAP LAYOUTS. THE ASSIGNMENT MUST DEMONSTRATE TECHNICAL ACCURACY, A SOUND UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNDERLYING CONCEPTS, AND AN INFORMED USE OF THE SOFTWARE TOOLS EMPLOYED. THE WRITTEN TEST INCLUDES MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS AND OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS, COVERING THE ENTIRE COURSE CONTENT. EACH QUESTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH A SPECIFIC SCORE, WHICH IS COMMUNICATED BEFORE THE START OF THE EXAM. THE TEST MUST BE COMPLETED WITHIN THE GIVEN TIME FRAME, GENERALLY NO LONGER THAN 60 MINUTES. THE FINAL GRADE IS EXPRESSED ON A 30-POINT SCALE. HONORS (CUM LAUDE) MAY BE AWARDED BASED ON: ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MAXIMUM SCORE IN THE WRITTEN TEST; COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, AND DEPTH OF THE PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT.

Verification of learning

THE ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS COURSE IS BASED ON A SINGLE FINAL EXAMINATION, AIMED AT VERIFYING THE ACQUISITION OF THE EXPECTED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS. THE EXAM CONSISTS OF TWO COMPONENTS: A PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT AND A WRITTEN TEST.
THE PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT INVOLVES THE EXECUTION AND DOCUMENTATION OF SPECIFIC GIS OPERATIONS, SELECTED FROM THOSE COVERED DURING THE COURSE. IN PARTICULAR, STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO PRESENT THE SETUP AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE OR MORE TYPICAL TASKS, SUCH AS: GEOREFERENCING OF CARTOGRAPHIC RASTER FILES, EDITING AND MANAGING VECTOR LAYERS, PERFORMING SPATIAL QUERIES ON GEOREFERENCED DATA, CONDUCTING THEMATIC AND/OR SPATIAL ANALYSES USING GIS TOOLS, AND PRODUCING FINAL MAP LAYOUTS. THE ASSIGNMENT MUST DEMONSTRATE TECHNICAL ACCURACY, A SOUND UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNDERLYING CONCEPTS, AND AN INFORMED USE OF THE SOFTWARE TOOLS EMPLOYED.
THE WRITTEN TEST INCLUDES MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS AND OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS, COVERING THE ENTIRE COURSE CONTENT. EACH QUESTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH A SPECIFIC SCORE, WHICH IS COMMUNICATED BEFORE THE START OF THE EXAM. THE TEST MUST BE COMPLETED WITHIN THE GIVEN TIME FRAME, GENERALLY NO LONGER THAN 60 MINUTES.
THE FINAL GRADE IS EXPRESSED ON A 30-POINT SCALE. HONORS (CUM LAUDE) MAY BE AWARDED BASED ON:
ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MAXIMUM SCORE IN THE WRITTEN TEST;
COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, AND DEPTH OF THE PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT.

	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: SELVINI-GUZZETTI, CARTOGRAFIA GENERALE TEMATICA E NUMERICA, UTET BORROUGHS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS MIGLIACCIO CARTOGRAFIA TEMATICA E AUTOMATICA. LIBRERIA CLUP , MILANO FOLLONI PRINCIPI DI TOPOGRAFIA. PATRON , BOLOGNA.

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:
SELVINI-GUZZETTI, CARTOGRAFIA GENERALE TEMATICA E NUMERICA, UTET
BORROUGHS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MIGLIACCIO CARTOGRAFIA TEMATICA E AUTOMATICA. LIBRERIA CLUP , MILANO
FOLLONI PRINCIPI DI TOPOGRAFIA. PATRON , BOLOGNA.

	More Information
	THE COURSE INCLUDES THE USE OF THE OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE QGIS (QUANTUM GIS) FOR PRACTICAL EXERCISES AND THE FINAL ASSIGNMENT.

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