Cartography, Topography and GIS

Code:

EMG0016

Acronym:

CTSIG

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Technological Sciences - Engineering

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Civil and Georesources Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Mining and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L.EA	31	Syllabus	2	-	6	52	162
L.EMG	9	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2008/09	2	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To acquaint students with the various existing available resources for georeferencing activities and engineering works including Cartography, Surveying and Geographic Information Systems.

CTSIG course will be ministered in two modules, namely:

Module of Mapping and Surveying (TC).

Module of Geographic Information Systems (SIG).

Module of Digital Terrain Modeling (DTM).

Learning outcomes and competences

Cartography and Topography Module:

Preliminary Notions, Form of the Earth, Representations of the Land

Know the different types of representations of the earth's surface.

Distinguish operations of planimetry and altimetry.

Become familiar with the National Military Maps at the scale 1/25000.

Using the different types of scales.

Perform operations to calculate distances and areas on topographic maps.

Construct topographic profiles.

Know the laws of contours representation.

Identify typical forms of land in topographic maps.

Knowing delineate watersheds on topographic maps.

Know the meaning of key symbols in existing topographic maps.

Recognize the importance of field guidance and practice it.

  Instruments - Topographic Surveys

Know and use the major tools and accessories auxiliary operations surveying.

Practice positioning and parking of surveying instruments.

Understand the principles of indirect measurement of distances.

Undertake measures distances by direct and indirect.

To implement various kinds of topographic alignments.

Alignments extend beyond topographic obstacles.

Known, use a passbook taqueométrica.

Conduct a simple survey and stakeout.

Acquire habits maintenance and conservation of material topography.

Module Geographic Information Systems:

Acquire and understand the essential concepts of geographic information - georeferencing

Understand and apply the coordinate systems: geographic and metrics.

Develop applications within a GIS project: variables and attributes.

Capacity development of a GIS project: construction of cartographic outputs environment.

Module of Digital Terrain Modeling:

Contact the Principles of Photogrammetry;

Observe and, if necessary practice, the use of drones to construct land photograph mosaics;

Know the operating principles of a Laser Profiler;

Understand the process of building digital terrain models.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Module Cartography and Topography:

Basic concepts of Surveying;

Reading Topographical Maps;

Singular forms of land and their topographical representations:

Planimetry and leveling;

Surveying instruments;

Topographic Surveys;

Module Geographic Information Systems:

Basics of modeling and representation of the earth;

Geoid, Datum, projections and coordinate systems;

Positioning with GPS;

Basics of geographic information systems;

Computational methods of administration of geographic data;

Models and structures of spatial data;

Manipulation of spatial data;

Examples of use of a basic GIS software.

Module of Digital Terrain Modeling:

Principles of Photogrammetry;

Methodologies for obtaining photographs;

Laser Profiling;

Point clouds and modeling software;

Detection and treatment of outliers points;

Practical examples of building digital terrain models

Mandatory literature

Graeme F. Bonham-Carter; Geographic information systems for geoscientists. ISBN: 0-08-042420-1
João Martins Casaca, João Luís de Matos, José Miguel Baio Dias; Topografia geral. ISBN: 972-757-339-8
Joaquim Alves Gaspar ; apoio Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa; Cartas e projecções cartográficas. ISBN: 972-757-151-4
Ana Duarte Fonseca, João Cordeiro Fernandes; Detecção remota. ISBN: 972-757-292-8
José Alberto Gonçalves; Sérgio Madeira; J. João Sousa; Topografia Conceitos e Aplicações, Lidel, 2012. ISBN: 978-972-757-850-4
João Matos; Fundamentos de Informação Geográfica, Lidel, 2008. ISBN: 978-972-757-514-5

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and Practical Classes and Practicals Classes
Practical classes will be held, whenever possible, in FEUP Campusfor the purpose of carrying out various Topographic Surveys.
Practical lessons using a GIS software (construction of thematic maps, georeferencing raster, building a digital terrain model).

Software

ESRI ArcView

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Surveying
Technological sciences > Technology > Remote sensing

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	60,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	13,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Estudo autónomo	83,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

As provided in applicable regulations

Calculation formula of final grade

The Exame Evaluation component has a weight in the final grade of 60%. The practical work of the Cartography / Topography Module and the Geographic Info Systems Module each have a 20% mark in the final grade.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to FEUP General Evaluation Rules.

Classification improvement

In the Appeal Exam

Observations

All students should buy, at the beginning of lessons, a Military Map of Portugal, scale 1/25.000, from the Army Cartographic Services.