Detection of underground infrastructure objects | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Detection of underground infrastructure objects (17.GI409A)

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

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Geodesy and Geoinformatics (Year: 4, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Geoinformatika
ECTS	6

To acquire basic and applied knowledge in the field of geodesy, geomatics and geoinformatics. To acquire basic and applied knowledge in the field of underground infrastructure detection.

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

Introduction, history. Information on the underground infrastructure in cadastre. Specificities in detecting different types of installations. Basic categorization of methods for detecting underground installations. Underground infrastructure detection by applying inductive methods. Underground infrastructure detection by applying specific methods. Pipeline leaking detection. Groundwater level detection. Underground infrastructure detection by applying georadar. Estimation of underground structure parameters detected by georadar. Integration of GNSS and GPR data. Standard methodology for measuring visualisation on a project. Forming GIS application with information on underground installations.

Teaching forms: lectures, computer practice, consultations, individual elaboration of obligatory tasks. Knowledge evaluation: guided and individual elaboration of obligatory tasks, 50%, final examination – oral form, 50%.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
B. Allred, J. Daniels, M. Eshani	Handbook of Agricultural Geophysics	2008	CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA	English
D. Daniels	Ground Penetrating Radar - Second edition	2004	IEE, London GBR	English
B. Meehan	Empowering Electric and Gas Utilities with GIS (Case Studies in GIS)	2007	ESRI press, Redlands, California, USA	English
Radiodetection Ltd	ABC&XYZ of locating buried pipes and cables – for beginner and the specialist	2008	Bristol, UK	English
U. M. Shamsi	GIS Applications for Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Systems	2005	CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA	English
The survey association	The essential guide to utility surveys, ISSUE 3	2011	Newark, UK	English