The list of past and present projects solved by our Cartographic Research Team
The Caves of Bohemian Switzerland NP and Elbe Sandstone PLA: interdisciplinary research for nature conservation purposes using modern methods
Provider: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Number: SS07010065
Solution period: 2024–2026
The main researcher: Mgr. Jaroslav Kukla, Ph.D., Charles University, Institute for Environmental Studies
A co-researchers from the department: Mgr. Jakub Lysák, Ph.D., Mgr. Petra Krsková, Mgr. Adéla Šedová
Heritage of lost landscapes: identification, reconstruction and presentation
Provider: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, NAKI II
Number: DG18P02OVV008
Solution period: 2018 - 2022
The main researcher: doc. RNDr. Pavel Chromý, UK
The main researcher from the department: doc. RNDr. Lucie Kupková, Ph.D.
A co-researchers from the department: RNDr. Lukáš Brůha, Ph.D., Ing. Miroslav Čábelka, Mgr. Lucie Červená, Ph.D., Ing. Markéta Potůčková, Ph.D., Ing. Eva Štefanová, Ph.D.
Web: http://www.zaniklekrajiny.cz
The project deals with the theme of heritage of lost landscapes in the territory of Czechia. Its aim is to identify, document, reconstruct and present the heritage of landscapes that were lost during the period of dynamic societal changes since the end of the 18th century, with emphasis on: 1) utilization of historical sources and modem technologies for identification, documentation, reconstruction of cultural heritage and values of various types of landscapes; 2) on the example of lost landscapes present diversity of cultural landscape heritage and contribute to the establishment of conditions for its systematic protection, presentation and utilization in education and regional development. The main output of the project is the Digital Atlas of Defunct Landscapes, accessible from the web portal http://www.zaniklekrajiny.cz/atlas.
Cross-border expert system and early warning system for geological risks in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains
Provider: Interreg Europe
Number:100333189
Solution period: 2017–2021
The main researcher: Dr.-Ing. Jörn Wichert, TU Bergakademie Freiberg – Institut für Geotechnik
The main researcher from the department: Ing. Markéta Potůčková, Ph.D.
A co-researchers from the department: doc. Ing. Tomáš Bayer, Ph.D., Ing. Eva Štefanová, Ph.D., Ing. Miroslav Čábelka
Web: http://elbe-labe-georisiko.eu
Project No. 100333189 under the cooperation programme Czech Republic - Free State of Saxony 2014 - 2020. The project deals with the creation of an expert system in the Elbe Sandstone area in relation to geological risks and threats to the public and infrastructure from rock falls.
Experimental development of the program apparatus for the automatization of producing the State Map Series
Provider: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Number: TIRICUZK829
Solution period: 2019 - 2021
The main researcher: Jan Langr (Unicorn/HSI), RNDr. Jakub Lysák, Ph.D. (za UK)
A co-researchers from the department: doc. Ing. Tomáš Bayer, Ph.D., Mgr. Tomáš Pokorný
The main objective of the project is to automate the process of production of the State Map Series (SMS) from the underlying data ZABAGED, thereby minimizing of the subjective interventions of cartographers into standardized SMS content and form, creating conditions for shortening the SMS release period, thus increasing the SMS's up-to-dateness and achieving higher efficiency of SMS creation. Further to enrich the content of SMS by elements that have not yet been or are poorly visualized from source databases.
Research and development of methods for cartographic generalization of the middle scaled state maps
Provider: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
Number: TB04CUZK001
Solution period: 2015 - 2016
The main researcher: doc. Ing. Tomáš Bayer, Ph.D., RNDr. Jakub Lysák, Ph.D.
The project aims to permanently reduce production costs of the derived maps by establishing, testing, and the development of organizational and technical procedures and by compilation procedures such as automatic generalization of the basic spatial datasets allowing usage of the latest available information for the creation of the state middle scaled maps. A partial goal is to eliminate all subjective and intuitive influences acting upon manually or semi-manually carried cartographic generalization that continually modify the results of the generalization.
TEMAP - Technology for access to Czech map collections: methodology and software for protection and re-use of national cartographic heritage
Provider: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, NAKI
Solution period: 2011 - 2015
The main researcher: PhDr. Eva Novotná, Ph.D., Ing. Tomáš Bayer, Ph.D., Ing. Miroslav Čábelka, Ing. Markéta Potůčková, Ph.D., Mgr. Lukáš Brůha
Web: http://web.natur.cuni.cz/gis/temap
The project aims to create new procedures, methodologies and software tools for processing, protecting and on-line visualization of map collections. This will provide a solution that innovatively combines cartography, the latest web technology and experience of memory institutions. Software development will focus on the support of collaborative bibliographic and cartographic processing of map collections (including support for cartographically correct cataloguing of map series in memory institutions) and on the subsequent use of such data and metadata to streamline the process of enhancement and online publishing for the benefit of lay and professional public. The core element of the software solution will be a Georeferencer tool, which will be extended to include new features such as support for cartographic projections, map series, search for maps by image similarity etc.
The project included, for example:
- Development of software for management, search, publication and on-line presentation of cartographic documents in the form of a web application
- Cartographic analysis
- Detection of cartographic representation and estimation of its parameters from the map
- Creation of an e-learning course entitled: Old maps - digitization, cataloguing, analysis
- Involvement in the project www.staremapy.cz
- Georeferencing of old maps
- Principles of cataloguing old maps
- Technologies for digitizing old maps