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, supporting practical tests about maps and building science.
The passing of intermediate examinations during the course is valid for these practice tests
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.