Geomatics and Environmental Engineering
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ISSN 1898-1135
e-ISSN: 2300-7095
Issue Date
2012
Volume
Vol. 6
Number
No. 1
Description
Journal Volume
Geomatics and Environmental Engineering
Vol. 6 (2012)
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Articles
Sustainable development of information society: towards an ethics of information
(2012) Babik, Wiesław
In the information and knowledge society that we are building, we deal with a tremendous increase in the quantity and diversity of information. That condition also results from new information technologies which supply new, almost unlimited possibilities of creation, processing, storage, retrieval, and perception of information. The social flood of information constitutes a substrate of the information market where information becomes a commodity. That situation in the information society is a source of many problems related to the necessity of proper selection of information, information management and ethical responsibility on the part of information-process participants. This paper is a continuation of our considerations of the present day issues of the development of an information society, stressing the necessity of dealing with information ethics which concerns all human activities related to information, including cooperation in the transfer of technologies and innovations. We present here the object of that discipline, its tasks and the need to shape the ethical culture of all persons dealing with information.
Changes in the shape of the river-bed over a period of time at the base of the Vistula River before Cracow
(2012) Bieda, Agnieszka; Hycner, Ryszard
Flowing waters, especially big rivers, influence their entire environment. Yet, for surveyors the most important are these changes caused by rivers, through changes in their beds, which can alternate cadastral data. The discussed problems result directly from both the damaging and constructive features of rivers and also from Water Law and other regulations which provide the fonundation for establishing grounds and building registers. This paper contains partly a comparison between former situation presented on archive maps and concerning sections of the Vistula River, west of Cracow and the contemporary situation. The purpose of this comparison is to draw the reader’s attention to the important problem of updating cadastral maps, made in surrounding of accumulative-erosion activity of river, is.
Surveying monitoring of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Inowrocław, located in a mining area, applying reflectorless technologies and precise levelling
(2012) Gawałkiewicz, Rafał; Skulich, Mikołaj
The preservation of the practical and aesthetic functions of objects, especially ones of historic character, located in mining terrains and subdued to the influences of mining exploitation (still carried out or finished), require surveying monitoring. Carried out from 2005 until 2010 in the framework of surveying monitoring, measurements of a historic building – the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Inowrocław, allow the conclusions referring to the character of the changes in the geometry of the solid, caused by technology-originated and exogenous factors in the building. In this article the authors present a description of measurement technology of changes in the geometry of selected elements of the church construction based on the use of reflectorless total station and code leveller.
The content of trace metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) in selected plant species (moss Pleurozium schreberi, dandelion Taraxacum officianale, spruce Picea abies) along the road Cracow – Zakopane
(2012) Korzeniowska, Joanna; Panek, Ewa
The goal of the paper was to define the phytoindication ability of selected plant species in the conditions of the impact of traffic on the environment. The contents of the following trace metals were analysed: Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn in three plant species: moss Pleurozium schreberi (Brid.) Mitt., dandelion Taraxacum officianale F. H. Wigg. And in Norway spruce Picea abies (L.) H. Karst alongside the communication route Kraków-Zakopane. The plant samples (green parts of moss, leaves of dandelion, and two year old needles of common spruce) were taken in seven transects perpendicular to the road in the following distances from the edge of the road: 5 m, 10 m, 50 m and 100 m. The moss Pleurozium schreberi turned out to be the best indicator among the tested plant species because it accumulated trace metals in the highest concentrations. In the leaves of the dandelion lower concentrations of metals were found, while the lowest ones were in the needles of the spruce.
An analysis of coordinate changes of the permanent geodetic stations KRAW and KRA1 during the flood in 2010
(2012) Maciuk, Kamil
Higher surface water status brings an increase in groundwater levels and additional, local loading of the crust. These factors may affect on coordinates particularly on heights of GPS reference stations, located near rivers. In this study changes of ellipsoid heights’ of selected reference stations of ASG-EUPOS and EUREF networks, fluctuations of the Vistula River’s water and groundwater levels’ fluctuations were analyzed, and compared during the period from April to July of 2010.