Engineering Surveys for Industry

Prof. Alojz Kopáčik, PhD. is Professor of Geodesy and Cartography and the head of the Department of Surveying at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He has been lecturing on Engineering Surveying, Underground Surveying, and Legislation in Surveying since 2000. His main research areas are Engineering Surveying, Automation of Measuring Systems, and Deformation Analysis. He is the author and co-author of 6 books, editor of 12 proceedings, the main investigator of many research and commercial projects, member of the German Geodetic Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the FIG, TCs in the field of standardization, of examination commissions at many universities, and the Chamber of surveyors and cartographers in Slovakia, and is a licensed surveyor.Ján Erdélyi, PhD. is an Associate Professor at the Department of Surveying at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He has been lecturing on Engineering Surveying and Engineering Surveys for Industry since 2009. He worked on the Habilitation on Use of Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Construction and Industry in 2018 at the STU in Bratislava, and he performs research activities in the field of TLS, Deformation Analysis, and Building Information Modelling. He is a co-investigator of many research and commercial projects aimed at different fields of engineering surveying.Peter Kyrinovič, PhD. is an Associate Professor at the Department of Surveying at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He has been lecturing on Engineering Surveying and Surveying since 1999. He worked on Habilitation on Measuring Systems for Geodetic Monitoring of Building Structures in 2018 at the STU in Bratislava. His main research areas are Engineering Surveying, Automation of Measuring Systems, and Deformation Analysis. He is author of several projects in these fields.

• Chapter 1.- Specific conditions of geodetic measurement in industry. Chapter 2.- Quality of industrial measurements. Chapter 3.- Maps and information systems of industrial plants. Chapter 4.- Geodetic networks of industrial equipment and plants. Chapter 5.- Special methods for measurement of industrial equipment. Chapter 6.- Terrestrial laser scanning systems. Chapter 7.- Coordinate measurement systems and machines. Chapter 8.- Setting-out and control of cranes and crane rails. Chapter 9.- Setting-out and control of rotary kilns. Chapter 10.- Geodetic works for design, construction, and operation of nuclear power plants.