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R E S E A R C H A C T I V I T I E S
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The departments of the Faculty conduct research projects financed by the KBN, Foundations for Polish Science, National Fund of Environmental Protection and commissioned orders from research industrial institutions and State administration.
The scientific works of the Faculty staff members are presented in different Polish and foreign publications. Since 1956 the Scientific Bulletin - series 'Surveying ' and since 1966 - series 'Environmental Engineering' have been published. The subjects of the published works result from the scientific and research activities of respective Departments, closely collaborating with different branches of industry, administrative units and foreign partners.
The main fields of research activities of the Departments of the Faculty of Mining Surveying and Environmental Engineering have recently covered:
- investigations on modern measurement technologies, conducted for
underground, open pit and bore-hole mines;
- investigations on problems related to changes occurring in the
rockmass and area surface, caused by mining and bore-hole mining,
especially evaluation of consequences of mining activity in the light
of their interactions with the construction developments, local
technical infrastructure, natural environment as well as forecasting
of effects brought about by underground and bore-hole mining upon the
area surface (improving of deformation process models and computer
programs);
- investigations on the map-making technology for mines;
- investigations on possible applications of GPS (Global Positioning
System) for measuring area deformations in mining areas and
determination of neotectonic activity;
- investigations on protection of surfaces from harmful effects of
mining;
- development of deposit geometrisation methods, including the
surface protection;
- investigations on problems related to kinematics of the
deformation process of rockmass and area surface from the point of
view hazards;
- research investigations on advanced surveying, satellite
surveying, surveying astronomy, geodesy and cartography with the
application of the GPS;
- investigations on computer cartography regarding the methods of
digital generalisation: data base based upon the FDS data model,
mathematical rules and geometric objects of any shape (open, closed),
with the application of global algorithm for simplification, scale
changing and keeping up the exact data after the generalisation
according to the branch standards;
- elaboration of modern specialistic technologies for surveying
measurements;
- improvement of measurement methods for displacements and
deformations of industrial objects with their interpretation from the
point of view construction;
- computer software for engineering surveying and optimisation of
computer calculations;
- development of electronic measurement technique in surveying
(incl. automation of surveying measurements);
- compensation of thermal effects in surveying and engineering
measurements;
- economics and organisation of surveying and cartographic
production;
- evaluation of technical conditions and safety of industrial
buildings, objects and services buildings in the area of mining,
principles for determination of the state of displacements and
deformations of services buildings, use of probabilistic methods in
the hazard evaluation of built structures;
- elaboration of methods and range of reconstruction of the damaged
housing and industrial buildings, protection of built structures in
hard foundation conditions;
- wear and tear problems in buildings, the use of thermovision
technique in the determination of thermal parameters of buildings and
detections of defects in industrial buildings;
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- investigations on modern technologies of obtaining, storage,
processing and rendering accessible information on the space,
especially the examination on the implementation of computer-aided
land information systems (SIT);
- investigations on remote methods of gaining information on
objects, environemnt, processing of this information, rendering it
accessible and analysis in the integrated systems of spatial data
LIS/GIS;
- legal and surveying problems of real estate turnover;
- investigations aimed at improving the land and real estate
register;
- methodology for assessment of real estates;
- town and country planning and structural transformations of the
the use of lands and objects;
- investigations on the methods of short range photogrammetry, based
also on the semimetric and digital cameras (used in stock-taking of
monumental landmarks and measurements of deformations, displacements
of buildings and industrial structures);
- investigations on the problems related to the protection of
atmospheric air, in particular the evaluation of current technologies
(aimed at their possible modernisation) to limit emissions of
pollutions, assess the hazard to air purity in the light of principles
of forecasting the air pollution levels for the investments under
designing and modernisation;
- investigations regarding the wastes dumping and the utilisation of
mining excavations for safe storage of wastes of high toxicity;
- development of the rehabilitation methods of the lands changed in
the course of industrial activity, investigations on the protection of
water and water-and-sewage management;
- investigations on the effect of different factors upon land and
water ecosystems;
- study on the methods of evaluations of influences of investments
upon the environment;
- investigations on chemical deformations occrurring in soil and
plants under the influence of anthropogenic factors, with application
of various electroanalytical methods;
- investigations of metal electrodepositions under high pressures;
- investigations on the utilisation of industrial wastes;
- investigations on the construction of electroanalytical sensors
for determination of NO levels in biological material and the course
of combustion processes in power generating boilers.
Major laboratories and research equipment
Department of Mining Surveying is equipped with its own computer laboratory, with the most modern equipment (Hewlett Packard and two GPS Sensor SR 9500 Leica re-ceivers).
Department of Geodesy and Cartography has six GPS ASHTECH receivers and the field and laboratory testing base with laser interferometer manufactured by Hewlett Packard. Department of Engineering Surveying and Building Engineering has two GPS receivers, two thermovision cameras and an electronic tachymeter TC 2002.
Department of Land Information Systems has a working station with a plotter, format A-0, and two electronic tachymeters TC 1700 Leica.
Department of Mine Areas Protection has two receivers GPS GEODIMETER and an electronic precise tachymeter GEODIMETER.
The computer laboratory of the Department of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Informatics possesses a precise scanner for aerial photographs, PhotoScan TD, and a photogrammetric digital station, manufactured by Intergraph.
The laboratories of soil physics and chemistry, investigations on plants and air protection of the Department of Environmental Management and Protection are equipped with a gas chromatograph HP 6890, nitrogen analyser, portable exhaust gas analyser Lancom series II with a conditioner of exhaust gas samples.
The laboratory of the Department of Environmental Chemistry has an eletrochemcial analyser BAS 100 B/W, performing measurements with application of most voltammetry techniques.
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