- Docente: Luca Vittuari
- Credits: 5
- SSD: ICAR/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Building Engineering (cod. 0445)
Learning outcomes
The course is established to supply the necessary knowledge:
- For the correct use of geographical reference systems used in cartography.
- To understand the analytical principles of the most used cartographic representations.
- For reading and producing traditional, digital and vectorial mapping supports, with respect to the different scales.
- To understand elementary principles and use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Monographic lessons introduce the students within practical applications of the discussed arguments
Course contents
Spatially referenced data: the role and importance of coordinate systems and geodetic reference frames.
Cartographic production of the Military Geographic Institute, (new and old series), deeper inspection of series: 50, 25V, 25, 25DB. Regional technical cartography (scale 1:10000, 1:5000), definitions of geographical and cartographical grids.
The basic map types: analog/paper, raster, vectorial; georeferencing procededure of raster images. Manual and user assisted procedure for vectorialization of raster images.
Introduction to the numeric cartography, data structures and topology, definition of geometric-semantic congruence and introduction to map generalizations techniques.
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Readings/Bibliography
Federica Migliaccio:Cartografia Tematica e Automatica, Libreria Clup, Milano, 2001.
Selvini A., Guzzetti F.: Cartografia generale, tematica e numerica, UTET, Milano, 1999.
Teaching methods
Lectures and exercises are placed side by side, in particular practical exercises for the use of traditional cartography and for the production of digital and numerical cartography are carried out during the course.
Assessment methods
Oral exam at the end of the course
Office hours
See the website of Luca Vittuari