Program Overview

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ELEMENTS OF GEOMATICS 2

Course Description

The teaching aims to provide students with the knowledge related to the main topographic techniques for the detailed survey of the built environment and infrastructures framed in the territory, to be carried out with traditional techniques possibly integrated with GNSS positioning.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the student will have acquired the theoretical and practical tools useful for surveying the territory in the local area using traditional techniques and for analyzing and controlling the measurement campaigns carried out. The student will be able to:

• identify the most appropriate instrumentation, measurement schemes, and methods of execution according to the required accuracies;
• carry out a survey, paying particular attention to the operating modes of the instrumentation used;
• process the data resulting from the measurement campaigns;
• control the quality of the campaigns carried out and the results obtained in compliance with the expected accuracies;
• integrate traditional surveying with GNSS satellite positioning techniques;
• frame the survey in the main reference systems;
• place surveying in the cartography of interest.

Teaching Methods

The teaching includes lectures and exercises related to survey experiences carried out in the field and related processing and analysis.

Syllabus/Content

• Traditional topographic instrumentation
• Elements of treatment of observations
• Techniques of land surveying metrics

Recommended Reading/Bibliography

Lecture notes and material provided by the teacher to the students using AulaWeb. Texts for consultation:

• Blachut T. J., Chrzanowski A., Saastamoinen J. H.: Urban Surveying and Mapping. Springer Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978--6
• Mikhail E. M.: Observations and Least Squares. University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1976.

Teachers and Exam Board

• DOMENICO SGUERSO (President)
• ILARIA FERRANDO
• PAOLA SALMONA
• BIANCA FEDERICI (President Substitute)

Lessons

The timetable for this course is available on the Portale EasyAcademy.

Exams

Learning tests will be conducted through self-assessment instruments carried out during the course and, at the end of the course, through written test with some multiple-choice answers, some open-ended answers, and some exercises.

Assessment Methods

The written test will verify the ability to interpret a problem to reach its solution, with particular attention to the setting of the procedure, the numerical solution and the level of approximation to be adopted.

Exam Schedule

• 28/10/2025: 14:30, GENOVA
• 25/11/2025: 14:30, GENOVA
• 08/01/2026: 09:30, GENOVA
• 24/03/2026: 14:30, GENOVA
• 28/04/2026: 14:30, GENOVA
• 10/06/2026: 14:30, GENOVA
• 29/07/2026: 14:30, GENOVA

Further Information

Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities on file with the University and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak with the instructor and with Professor Federico Scarpa, the Polytechnic School's disability liaison.

Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goals

• Quality education
• Gender equality
• Reduce inequality
• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life on land

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