The course introduces land surveying and related equipment, main sources of maps for landscape and urban areas and their use; indicates potential limits of accuracy and criteria of choice on green spaces design.
Textbooks:
• Ritchie, Wood, Wright, Tait “Surveying and mapping for field scientists” –Longman Scientific & Technical (library, department GESAAF - information from the teacher).
• Aruta, Marescalchi “Cartografia. Lettura delle carte” - Flaccovio editore. (you can borrow the book at the central Library, Faculty of Agriculture).
• Cecioni – “Uso della Carta Topografica” –IGM.
• Capello –“La lettura delle carte topografiche e l’interpretazione dei paesaggi”- Giappichelli (you can borrow the book at the central Library, School of Agriculture).
• Teacher’s handouts.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: proper use of surveying equipment and maps for those involved in green areas design and implementation-
Competence acquired
skilfulness to operate surveying instruments, to work with maps, to choose which ones fit good a specific purpose.
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
ability to manage land surveys and to work with maps, for those involved in green spaces design and operation.
Prerequisites
Courses recommended: math
Teaching Methods
CFU:6
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Hours reserved to private study and other indivual formative activities: 102
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 26
Contact hours for: Laboratory (hours): --
Contact hours for: Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 22
Seminars (hours): 0-2
Stages: 0
Intermediate examinations: 0-4
Further information
Frequency of lectures, practice and lab:
Although not mandatory, frequency is strongly recommended.
Teaching tools
training on maps, topographic equipment.
Type of Assessment
Exam modality:
Preliminary written/practice examination; oral examination on the subjects of lectures and practice activities.
Course program
Horizontal, vertical surveying. Theodolite, surveyor’s level. Setting up an instrument at a point. Reading of scales. Stadia tacheometry. Field procedure for a tacheometric survey. Traversing, survey and computation. Levelling. Electromagnetic distance measurements. Map use in the field, map accuracy related to representation scale. Main sources of maps for landscape and urban areas. Reading the map. Maps key-panel and related symbols. Measuring horizontal /vertical features on maps. Datums. Coordinate systems: UTM grid reference system. Orienting a map to the ground with a compass. Global Navigation Satellite Systems overview: GPS; reading topographic maps; working with UTM coordinate systems.