548-0071/04 – Digital Terrain Models (DMR)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of GeoinformaticsCredits4
Subject guarantorIng. Kateřina Růžičková, Ph.D.Subject version guarantorIng. Kateřina Růžičková, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year1Semesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2021/2022Year of cancellation
Intended for the facultiesHGFIntended for study typesFollow-up Master, Bachelor
Instruction secured by
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RUZ02 Ing. Kateřina Růžičková, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit and Examination 1+2
Part-time Credit and Examination 4+8

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: - Define DMR - Distinguish between individual DMR types - Create DMR - choose suitable data, data model and method for DMR creation - Evaluate DMR quality - Specify and describe basic DMR analysis - Apply most of the basic DMR analysis

Teaching methods

Lectures
Tutorials
Project work

Summary

The aim of the subject is DMT creation, quality assessment and visualisation. It also present basic DMT analysis.

Compulsory literature:

LI, Z., ZHU, Q., GOLD, Ch. Digital Terrain Modeling. Principles and Applications. CRC Press, 2005. 323 p. MAUNE, D. F., NAYEGANDHI, A. Digital Elevation Model Technologies and Applications: The DEM Users Manual, 3rd Edition. ASPRS, 2018. 544 p. ISBN 1-57083-102-5 WILSON, J. P., GALLANT, J. C. Terrain Analysis. Principles and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. 479 p. EL-SHEIMY, N., VALEO, C., HABIB, A. Digital Terrain Modeling. Acquisition, Manipulation, and Applications. Artech House, Inc., 2005. 257 p. ISBN 1-58053-921-1

Recommended literature:

FLORINSKY, I. V. Digital Terrain Analysis in Soil Science and Geology. 2016 Elsevier. 506 p. ISBN 978-0-12-804632-6 IMHOF, E. Cartographic Relief Presentation. ESRI Press. 2007. 379 p. CHANG, K. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. 2018. ISBN 978-1-259-92964-9 KWAST, H., MENKE, K. QGIS for Hydrological Applications: Recipes for Catchment Hydrology and Water Management. Locate Press 2019. 168 p. ISBN-13: 978-0998547787

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

Present studies - field test student´s skills in the middle and at the end of the semester. Student must pass writing and oral exam.

E-learning

Other requirements

No additional requirements are imposed on the student.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Introduction 2. Features of ground 3. Types of DMT 4. Data sources for DMT creation 5. Data acquisition methods for DMT creation 6. Data models for DMT 7. Process of DMT creation 8. Interpolation 9. Triangulation 10. DMT verification 11. DMT visualization 12. DMT analyses (slope, orientation, curvature and roughness of DTM; landforms classification) 13. Analyses over DMT (hydrological and volume analyses; visibility analyses)

Conditions for subject completion

Part-time form (validity from: 2021/2022 Winter semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Credit and Examination Credit and Examination 100 (100) 51
        Credit Credit 33 (33) 17
                Tests Written test 26  14 2
                Active attendance Laboratory work 7  4
        Examination Examination 67 (67) 35 3
                Written exam Written test 50  25 3
                Oral test Oral examination 17  5 3
Mandatory attendence participation: Active attendance at 50% of exercises.

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Conditions for subject completion and attendance at the exercises within ISP: Lessons in form of self-study. Student can arrange on-line consultations with lecturer. Attendance of seminars according to student’s possibilities. The attendance can be substituted with individual project and individual processing of 6 seminar tasks, which should be hand in until end of the examination period of studied semester. Study materials and tasks for seminars are available in lms.vsb.cz system. The exam must take place personally.

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2021/2022 (B0532A330034) Geoinformatics AGI K Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2021/2022 (B0532A330034) Geoinformatics AGI P Czech Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan

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Assessment of instruction



2023/2024 Winter
2021/2022 Winter