Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Map projections (17.GIMK1)

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

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Geodesy and Geoinformatics (Year: 1, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field	Geoinformatika
ECTS	5

Acquiring knowledge about the theory of cartographic mapping and classification of cartographic projections. Knowledge of deformation theory of cartographic projections: deformation length, surfaces and angles. Ability to solve problems in the Lambert cone projection, the Gauss-Krüger projection, the transverse Mercator projection, and the determination of the basic characteristics.

Students get knowledge with the general theory of cartographic mapping and deformation theory, and are trained to select and evaluate the quality of cartographic projections.

General theory of cartographic mapping. Functions of mapping one surface to another. Elements of deformation theory. Main and local scales. General linear scale equation. Deformation length, surface and angles. Ellipse deformation and main directions. Mapping the ellipsoid to the ball and the plane. Conditions of conformal, equivalent and equidistant mapping. Criteria and division of cartographic projections. General equations for conic, cylindric, azimuth, polyconic, pseudoconic, pseudo-cylindric, pseudoazimuth and circular projections. Gauss-Kriger's projection. Transverse Mercator projection and UTM network. Criteria for quality score and choice of projections.

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

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Iliffe, J; Lott, R;	Datums and Map Projections: for Remote Sensing, GIS and Surveying	2008	Whittles Publishing: Caithness, Scotland	English
Lev M. Bugayevskiy and John P. Snyder	Map Projections A Reference Manual	1998	CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group, USA	English
Grafarend E., Krumm F.	Map projections, Cartographic Information Systems	2006	Springer	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Written part of the exam - tasks and theory	No	Yes	30.00
Term paper	Yes	Yes	15.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Computer excersise defence	Yes	Yes	30.00
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	20.00