Lecturer: Anna Spalla  

Course name: Geomatica e GIS
Course code: 501064
Degree course: Ingegneria Edile-Architettura
Disciplinary field of science: ICAR/06
University credits: CFU 9
Course website: http://geomatica.unipv.it/spalla/didattica.htm

Specific course objectives

This course will introduce students to the technologies and field procedures used in surveying and mapping and to the fundamental practical and conceptual skills necessary to undertake simple GIS analysis, and the theoretical and practical competency necessary to study GIS at a higher level. It aims to introduce the student to commercially available software, instruct students in the use of this software in applied GIS analysis scenarios and ensures a solid theoretical and conceptual foundation in GIS fundamental methods and analyses.

Course programme

Principles and applications of engineering surveying
Basic surveying operations and computations; theories of errors and their analysis; fundamental concepts of horizontal, vertical, and angular measurement. Fundamentals of observing distances, elevations, and angles. Geodetic sensors: levelling instruments, tacheometers, laserscanning Deformation monitoring techniques

Fundamentals of Geodesy and Cartography
Geographical, Cartesian and Astronomical coordinates. Map history. Map projections. Datum transformation methods.

Basic methods, technologies and systems of digital cartography
Introduction to digital Photogrammetry. Orthophotography and map-substitutes. Space Photogrammetry Automated photogrammetric systems Introduction to remote sensing methods used to produce maps and capture spatial information for solving civil engineering problems LIDAR Graphic data processing in cartography Data capturing in raster format Data capturing in vector format Digitisation and vectorisation Editing and symbolisation Digital topographic cartography Raster data processing, data formats, products 3D City Models

Fundamentals of Geographical Information Science
The nature of Geographic Information Data structures for GIS: vector/raster, topological, digital elevation models: matrix and triangular networks, database models Terrain Analysis and Visualisation Use of commercially available software in applied GIS analysis scenarios.

Course entry requirements

Course structure and teaching

Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 45
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 45
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0
Project work (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0

Suggested reading materials

A. Spalla. Dispense del corso e manualistica dei prodotti software utilizzati. Laboratorio di Geomatica. DIET. Le dispense e il materiale proiettato durante le lezioni sono scaricabili dal sito http://geomatica.unipv.it/spalla/.

A. Cina. GPS. Principi, modalità, tecniche di posizionamento. CELID. 2000.

F. Migliaccio. Sistemi Informativi Territoriali e Cartografia. Maggioli Editore 2007.

Testing and exams

A written exam on the whole program. A final exam on PC to test the knowledge of GIS skills and applications