• HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY
o The philosophy of maps
o The first representations of space
o The world of Sumeri, Assyrians and Babylonians
o The world according to ancient Greeks
o The pragmatism of Roman culture
o Tolomeo and his geography
o The Medieval symbology
o Flat vs Spherical Earth
o The cartography from Medieval to Reinaissance
o Mercator and the Dutch School
o The longitudinal question
o The new planispheres
o Cassini, the 18th century and the "Carte de la France"
o The military topography maps
o History of Urban and Rural Cadastres
o The scientific cartography after the 1750
o Alternative cartogeaphic projections
o Speculations about cartographic stereotypes

• IGM, CTR
o Cartography at 100.000 and its subdivisions
o The Technical Regional Map 1:10.000

• Territorial Informative Systems (TIS)
o Introduction and basic definitions
o What is a TIS
o What is a map
o The Earth shape: sphere, ellipsoid, geoid
o Coordinate system:Latitude, Longitude and Cartesian system
o Reference systems: global, local and geographical projections
o Scales
o Types of maps
o Digital representations: vectors and rasters
o Geographis Information Systems (GIS) and Territorial Informative Systems (TIS)
o TIS applications
o Introduction to GIS apps: functions and potentialities
o GIS components
o Introduction to online visualization softwares
o Web Map Services (WMS)
o Google Earth: basic and advanced functions

• QGIS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
o Introduction
o The environment: desktop and main functions
o The useful plug-ins
o Intriduction to vectors and rasters models
o Editing
o Attribute tables: management and editing
o Production of tematic maps

Slides and research materials supplied by the teacher (uploaded on Moodle)

Survey and representation of the territory
Reference surfaces, angle, distance, altitude, gradient, slope.
Survey operation
Measurement of angles and distances. Planimetric survey methods: intersections, open and closed polygons. Detail survey. Altimetric survey methods: levelling. Graphic return of the relief: dimensioned plane, plane with level curves.
GNSS system
General information, operating principles, how to perform the survey through GNSS.
Systems for Earth Observation
Remote sensing principles, main Earth Observation missions, analysis of remote sensing images
GIS and Territorial Information Systems
References to the main cartographic projection systems. Practical applications of analysis and representation of the territory.

Teaching material available on the Moodle platform