5th Semester RSGE

The course includes topics related to railway design, airport design, traffic planning and transport economics. Its detailed contents are as follows: • Introduction to railway infrastructures – Railway Kinematics • Railway line substructure and superstructure • Railway alignment design – Theory and application • Railway switches and crossings • Introduction to airport designs and aircraft flights • Airport masterplans, runways and other components • Air traffic elements and equipment • Traffic flow theory basics. • Transport demand, supply and costs • Resource allocation and externalities in transport • Financial and economic appraisal of transportation projects.

The course content includes the following: 1. What is Technology? Technology and human nature. 2. Artifacts as intermediaries between us and our bioworld. 3. Artificial Intelligence and the Internet. 4. Having control over Technology or under its control? 5. The social and political dimension of technological objects. 6. Postmodern technologies. Leading towards new ways of life. 7. Normative Ethical standards: Ethics, Consequentialism, Ethical egoism. 8. Practical ethical frameworks: Whistleblowing, Conflict of interest, Confidentiality. 9. Case studies. 10. Case studies. 11. Case studies. 12. Case studies.

The course is a concise overview of key periods in the history of world civilization. The origins of civilization, the history of mankind, the relationship of local culture with the transfer of technology and survival technology are examined, as well as intangible aspects of civilization such as science and ethics. The course's purpose is to offer a view of the way in which technique, technology and social phenomena are historically intertwined in the evolution of human culture. The teaching perspective utilizes concepts and tools of Social History and Theory and the History of Technology and Science.

The course covers the following topics: Introduction and properties of fluids, fluid pressure, viscosity. Hydrostatics, Pascal s Principle, differential manometers, hydrostatic forces on tank walls and submerged bodies, forces on flat and curved surfaces. Fluid kinematics and dynamics, streamlines, velocity, local and translational acceleration, continuity equations in differential reference volumes, boundary conditions, equations of motion along a streamline, Navier-Stockes equations, Bernoulli s equation, parallel flow. Macroscopic analysis of flow in a finite reference volume, Reynolds transport theorem, continuity equation, law of conservation of momentum, energy equation with application to laminar flow in ducts of circular cross section, energy line and piezometric line. Examples, Exercises, Applications

Introduction to adjustments Principle of the Method of Least Squares Sources and types of errors, Accuracy, Precision One dimensional variable Distribution function, Density function Measures of precision, Confidence intervals Histogram of Frequency Multidimensional variables Multidimensional quantities - variability - covariance - correlation, Vx Random vector, Probability Characteristic parameters, Characteristic tables Law of propagation of variances (linear - non-linear functions) Applications of law in special cases Method of indirect observations (linear - non-linear functions) Introduction, Estimation of the vector of best values, Estimates of variances Method of conventional observations (linear - non-linear functions) Introduction, Estimation of the vector of best values of measurements and residuals Estimates of variances Applications of the method of least squares for linear functions Linear regression Solutions of one-dimensional geodetic networks Applications of the least squares method for non-linear functions Planar transformations Solutions of 2D and 3D geodetic networks Adjustments of conic sections and surfaces in 3D point clouds Convex sets and convex functions. Extremes Lagrange s Theorem, An Introduction to Algorithmic Techniques Linear optimization Introduction to linear programming, Characteristics Constrained optimization. Dynamic Programming Characteristics of dynamic programming

Photogrammetry: Definitions, Applications - Advantages /disadvantages of Photogrammetry - Image creation, pinhole camera model - Basic elements of central projection, scale, relief distortion - Lenses, focus, depth of field, lens distortions - Elements of digital image - Coordinate systems and transformations - Interior and exterior orientation - Collinearity equation, uses and forms - Measurement of image coordinates - Photogrammetric resection, rectification - Calibration, DLT - Stereoscopic perception/parallax/intersection - Relative orientation / Epipolar lines / Coplanarity condition / Stereo model - Absolute Orientation / Ground control points - Digital Photogrammetric stations/ Stereoscopic measurements - Planning of image acquisition - Analog/digital aerial cameras/ platforms - State-of-the-art cameras for close-range applications and 3D sensing

GEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS ‘Geography and Spatial Analysis’ course examines issues that are included in the complex and wide range of modern Human Geography agenda. Characteristic examples are the concentration / dispersion of the population, the spatial patterns followed by economic activities (production and services), the spatial dimensions of social and technical infrastructures. In the course, the students deal with a field that is constantly expanding and is of key importance for the modern Surveying & Geoinformatics Engineer. It has now been linked both to the recognition of spatial phenomena and to the planning of spatial interventions (urban, regional, environmental planning). The aim of this course is therefore, to understand the importance of geographical space in the development of modern societies. More specifically, the recognition of the importance of the ""geographic-spatial approach"" which highlights the interdependencies between WHERE, HOW, WHEN and WHY. Based on the above, students become familiar with the methodologies, methods and techniques of spatial analysis aiming at the interpretation of the spatial patterns and processes that shape the structures and actions of everyday life. To consolidate the geographic-spatial approach in the context of the course, the students implement a project consisting of modular exercises.