GIS Projects

Grants

Ministry of Culture Czech Republic:

NAKI 22/2013 “Historical photographic material…”

  • In cooperation with the  National Technical Museum, National Heritage Institute, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
  • Our contribution is related to historical photographs and maps of chateaux and castles in the Czech Republic.

NAKI 42/2012 “Reconstruction of Landscape and Database of Vanished Settlements in the Ustecky Region to Preserve Cultural Heritage”.

Web Mapping Applications

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Nazca

Mysterious figures called geoglyphs digged in the ground of the Nazca dessert plain in Peru centuries ago presents this web mapping application. These figures are only visible from above the ground.The aim of this project is to preserve this world cultural heritage.
On this project cooperates our department with the German Dresden University of Applied Sciences. More information about this project can be found here.
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Old Maps of Bohemia

Selected old maps of Bohemia are presented in this web mapping application as well as in a form of web mapping services according to OGC standards (WMS, WMTS a KML). Among selected maps are Klaudian’s Map from 1518, Criginger’s Map from 1568, Aretin’s Map from 1619 and Müller’s Map from 1720.

Link to application

Cartographic Publications

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 Academic Atlas of Czech History

Team of cartographers from the Department of Geomatics contributed to the Academic Atlas of Czech History by more than 400 maps.

Academic atlas of the Czech history summarizes findings of historical research in the Czech lands in an innovative manner and covers the whole range of history from prehistoric era to the present. The work could be processed thank to synthesis of geographic information systems technologies and cartographic visualization with close collaboration of historians and cartographers. The challenge of interpreting various maps with data components representing time, space and theme issues represented the demanding task and in many cases the map layers structure and visualization had to be approached individually.

Read the whole paper in the proceedings of International Cartographic Conference 2013 in Dresden: PDF article.

Theses

Selected bachelor and master theses of our alumni. Database of academic theses is available at: geo.fsv.cvut.cz/cgi-bin/proj.

  This thesis describes reconstruction of landscape in the area flooded by the Prisecnice reservoir. The main task of the thesis was to create and visualize three dimensional model of the built-up area of the nonexistent village and its surroundings. The model was created in various GIS tools and based on available map materials and  photographs. The thesis contains analysis of land use in years 1842, 1953 and 2012 and also a model of the center of the village with its church.
3D models can be found at: prisecnice.eu, while the reconstruction works in GIS still continues.