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TLS and UAV Technology

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 544-0921/02
Abbreviation TTU
Course title TLS and UAV Technology
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geodesy and Mine Surveying
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Roman Kapica, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

3D laser scanners and their practical application.
Principle of operation and sweeping of the beam, determination of distance.
Internal and external influences affecting the measurement. Influence of environment, geometry and surface of scanned objects.
Measurement and processing of measured data. Terrain reconnaissance, signalling and measuring of control points.
Registration and modification of point clouds, 3D modelling.
Handheld self-positioning scanning.
Unmanned systems and their field applications in practice.
The issue of operating drones in the Czech Republic.
Preparation of a flight mission and execution of your own flight.
Methods of image data evaluation.
Optical correlation systems (image correlation).

Literature

KREPS, Sarah E. Drones: what everyone needs to know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. What everyone needs to know. ISBN 978-0-19-023534-5.
GREEN, David R.; GREGORY, Billy J. a KARACHOK, Alexander (ed.). Unmanned aerial remote sensing: UAS for environmental applications. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4822-4607-0.
NIEDZIELSKI, Tomasz, ed. Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles in geosciences. Cham, Switzerland: Birkhäuser, [2019]. Pageoph topical volumes. ISBN 978-3-030-03170-1.
LINDER, Wilfried. Digital photogrammetry: a practical course. 3rd ed. Berlin: Springer, c2009. ISBN 978-3-540-92724-2.

Advised literature

AVTAR, Ram a Teiji WATANABE, ed. Unmanned aerial vehicle: applications in agriculture and environment. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, [2020]. ISBN 978-3-030-27156-5 .
GRUBESIC, Tony H. a Jake R. NELSON. UAVs and urban spatial analysis: an introduction. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, [2020]. ISBN 978-3-030-35864-8.
KAPICA, Roman. Visualization of photogrammetric data in areas affected by mining activities: monograph. Ed. 1st. Košice: Technická univerzita v Košiciach, 2014. ISBN 978-80-553-1841-7 .
GRUBESIC, Tony H. a NELSON, Jake R. UAVs and urban spatial analysis: an introduction. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, [2020]. ISBN 978-3-030-35864-8.