Maps: their use, graphic uncertainty at publication scale, main map coordinate systems in Italy. construction materials, stresses in direct stress, bending, shear.
Textbooks:
• Ritchie, Wood, Wright, Tait “Surveying and mapping for field scientists” –Longman Scientific & Technical (library, department GESAAF - information from the teacher).
• Aruta, Marescalchi “Cartografia. Lettura delle carte” - Flaccovio editore. (you can borrow the book at the central Library, Faculty of Agriculture, Piazzale Cascine,18).
• Cecioni – “Uso della Carta Topografica” –IGM.
• Capello –“La lettura delle carte topografiche e l’interpretazione dei paesaggi”- Giappichelli (you can borrow the book at the central Library, School of Agriculture).
• Teacher’s handouts.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: (at the end of the course): making use of maps for people involved in landscape at a technical/scientific position; to understand strength or failure of materials.
Competence acquired (at the end of the course): Ability to work with maps, to choose which ones fit a specific purpose; to realize strength of structural members; to design simple forestry and rural buildings according to functional specifications.
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
ability to work with maps, choosing suitable maps for a particular use. Ability to read and understand technical drawings of forest building: ability to work in synergy with other professionals such as surveyors and engineers.
Frequency of lectures and practice:
frequency, although not mandatory, is strongly recommended.
Teaching tools
training on maps, topographic equipment.
Type of Assessment
Exam modality: Intermediate examinations, oral examination on the subjects of lectures and practice activities.
Course program
Horizontal / vertical surveying. Theodolite, surveyor’s level. Setting up an instrument at a point. Reading of scales. Stadia tacheometry. Levelling. Electromagnetic distance measurements. Map use in the field, map accuracy related to publication scale. Maps for Italian landscape. Reading the map. Maps key-panel and related symbols. Measuring horizontal /vertical features on maps. Datum. Coordinate systems: UTM grid reference system. Orienting a map to the ground with a compass. Global Navigation Satellite Systems overview: GPS; topographic maps; working with UTM coordinate systems, MGRS.
Forestry buildings: forces; stresses in direct stress, bending, shear; risks posed by buckling of slender columns. Construction materials, embodied energy. Structural elements. Reading technical drawings of forestry buildings.