Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Digital terrain models (17.GI404A)

Native organizations units: Sub-department for Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Geodesy and Geoinformatics (Year: 3, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Geodezija Geoinformatika
ECTS	7

Acquisition of basic and applied knowledge in the field of digital data modeling and Digital terrain models. Introduction of students into the world of 3D models and problems that accompany the visualization of relief and geospatial.

Acquired knowledge is used in professional courses, as well as in the recognition and in solving the engineering problems.

Lecture content: Digital terrain models: purpose and applications. Terrain presentation – basic concepts. Terrain presentations in 2D and 3D space. Digital terrain model – basic concepts. Classification of digital terrain models – DTM, DSM, DEM. Data acquisition for digital terrain model: Classical surveying, Photogrammetry, SAR interferometry, LIDAR, GNSS. Surface and terrain modelling. Networks of triangles. Networks of squares and rectangles. Automations in TIN and GRID generating. Interpolation techniques. Geostatistics. Quality control and accuracy assessment. Digital terrain modeling in different resolutions - LOD. Presentation using contour lines. Generation of contour lines based on DTM. Visualization of the digital terrain model. Application of the digital terrain model in geodesy. GIS application of the digital terrain model. Practice contents: Practical application in the lectures presented in the concepts.

Forms of teaching: lectures; computer exercises; active participation; making tasks.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Li, Z., Zhu, Q., Gold, C.	Digital terrain modeling : principes and metodology	2005	CRC Press, Boca Raton	English
Kraus, K.	Photogrammetrie, Band 3	2001	Topographische Informationsysteme, Bonn, Germany	English