Mine surveying and geodesy department
The department of “Mine Surveying and Geodesy”, established in 1953, trains bachelors, masters and PhD in the following educational programs:
Bachelor’s degree
– 6B07206 “Mine Surveying”;
– 6B07302 “Geodesy and Cartography”;
– 6B07303 “Digital Aerial Photography”;
– 6B07310 “Aerophotogeodesy”.
Master’s degree
– 7M07205 “Mine Surveying”;
– 7M07301 “Geodesy”;
– 7M07305 “Remote Sensing of the Earth”.
Doctoral degree
– 8D07206 “Mine Surveying”;
– 8D07208 “Mine Surveying” (specialized).
The main mission of the department is to train competitive personnel. The department contributes to the intellectual and professional development of society by training specialists with a new generation of engineering education.
The aim of the department is to ensure the teaching of academic disciplines with the application of the latest technologies at the level of modern requirements of industry, science and technology.
The head of the department currently is Master of Engineering Sciences M.S. Tutanova.
Training of specialists engaged in mine surveying and geodetic control for proper high quality mining excavation processes with the introduction of digital technologies.
Scope of professional activities
Mine surveying is a branch of mining science, which includes measurements on the surface and in mine workings, carried out during the exploration and operation of deposits, construction of mining enterprises in order to build plans and drawings of the studied objects, as well as to solve mining geometric problems.
The qualifications of mine surveying specialists have always made it possible to work almost immediately at any mining enterprise in the country:
- underground gold mine with various systems of development;
- open-pit mining of placer deposits by overburden method with the use of hydromonitors or dredge method;
- coal mine with flat, inclined or steep seams;
- open-pit (quarry) mining of coal, ore or other mineral deposits;
- development of oil and gas fields;
- underground transport construction.
In addition to the above-mentioned industries, a mine surveyor can work in all related professions, both geodetic surveying and mining. And there is a choice to work, for example, as a surveyor in all kinds of geodesic, construction, scientific, educational, research enterprises or as a mining engineer, foreman in mining enterprises.
The field of professional activity of specialists includes engineering support of human activity in the Earth’s interior during operational exploration, extraction and processing of solid minerals, construction and operation of underground facilities for various purposes.
The objects of professional activity of specialists are:
- subsurface resources of the Earth, including production facilities, equipment and technical systems for their development;
- techniques and technologies to ensure safe and efficient implementation of geotechnologies and extraction, processing of solid minerals and rational use of underground space.
Group of educational programs B074 “Town Planning, Construction Operations and Civil Engineering”
Major subjects: mathematics, physics
Training of specialists to perform cartographic and geodesic surveys by ground and satellite methods.
Scope of professional activities
The scope of the bachelor’s professional activity is all branches of the economy, including the military industry, civil and industrial construction, government agencies in the field of land resources management, etc.
Objects of professional activity
The objects of professional activity of graduates are:
- Earth surface, state geodetic networks and special-purpose networks;
- construction sites of buildings and structures;
- civil, residential, transport, and hydraulic buildings and structures;
- mineral deposits;
- land plots, urban areas;
- natural and natural-anthropogenic systems.
Professional equipment
Tools of professional activity is geodetic, astronomical, aerial survey, gravimetric, photogrammetric and cartographic instruments and equipment; maps; satellite geodetic equipment, geodetic and cartographic software.
Typical tasks of professional activity:
- topographic-geodesic support of cartographic representation of the Earth surface as a whole, separate territories and Earth surface areas;
- creation, development and reconstruction of state geodetic networks and special-purpose networks;
- study of the shape and external gravitational field of the Earth;
- all kinds of topographic and special surveys of different scales;
- mathematical processing of geodetic measurements and equalization of geodetic networks;
- a set of activities on the design, compilation and editing of cartographic products.
Group of educational programs B075 “Cadastre and land surveying”
Major subjects: mathematics, geography
The main trend of our time is the transition from analog technology to digital technology. Thus, traditional aerial photography methods are becoming a thing of the past, giving way to unmanned aerial vehicles. UAVs are receiving more and more attention lately, they are being used in a wide range of human activities, which has a positive effect on their technological development.
URBAN PLANNING AND LAND MANAGEMENT:
- Land Supervision and Change Tracking;
- Complex cadastral works;
- Digital mapping;
- Design in 3D.
GEODESY:
- Creation of orthophotomaps;
- Creation of topographic plans;
- DTM and hypsometry.
CONSTRUCTION:
- Planning and design;
- Quality control of the work performed;
- Up-to-date information at all stages of construction.
MINING:
- Up-to-date quarry surface geometric data;
- Digital surface model with centimeter spatial resolution;
- Control over completeness of excavation, determination of extraction volumes, accounting of overburden volumes, determination of losses, drawing up plans for development of mining operations, monitoring of stable, safe condition of sides and dumps.
OIL AND GAS SECTOR:
- Infrastructure Survey;
- Inventory and planning;
- Environmental monitoring;
- Operational Control
FORESTRY:
- Creating orthophotomaps;
- Analysis, protection and planning;
- Operational monitoring;
- Mapping and control of the state of the forests.
ENERGY:
- Surveying power lines and energy infrastructure;
- Unmanned monitoring of heating networks;
- Management of emergency situations.
Given the active development of UAVs Department of Mine Surveying and Geodesy of KSTU has opened a new EP “Digital aerial surveying” in 2019.
In the course of study, bachelor students are introduced to the subjects of professional activities of aerial surveying, geodetic, gravimetric, photogrammetric and cartographic instruments and equipment. Separate attention is given to the study of satellite geodetic equipment, geodetic and cartographic software.
Our students have a great opportunity to be engaged in scientific activities in their specialty, as well as study parallel and related disciplines. With modern equipment and instruments, the training process of students is carried out with the maximum involvement of the most modern methods and technologies.
Training specialists who perform aerial photography of area and linear objects using unmanned aerial vehicles of copter and aircraft types, constructing digital terrain models, and filling the topographic database with digital information on the mapping area.
Scope of professional activities
The scope of professional activity covers all sectors of the economy, including the military, aerospace, and industrial complexes, civil and industrial construction, engineering surveys, and government agencies in the field of land resource management.
Areas of professional activity include:
• aerial photogrammetric support for cartographic imaging of individual territories and areas of the Earth’s surface;
• creation, development, and reconstruction of state geodetic networks and special purpose networks;
• study of the shape and external gravitational field of the Earth using aerospace images;
• creation of geocentric and reference coordinate systems, determination of their mutual position in relation to the territory of states, regions, and the Earth’s surface as a whole;
• organization of aerial photogeodetic monitoring of geodynamic processes;
• designing complexes for astronomical geodetic, aerial photogeodetic, cartographic, and topographic-geodetic work;
• using aerospace satellite mathematical systems to determine the coordinates and heights of points;
• all types of aerial photogeodetic and special surveys of various scales;
• processing of aerial photogeodetic measurements and adjustment of geodetic networks; conducting a range of activities related to the design, compilation, and editing of aerial photocartographic products.
The main functions of graduates’ professional activities are: the use of aerial photography, remote sensing of the Earth, geodetic and cartographic methods to obtain, process, and analyze spatial data about the terrain.
The objects of professional activity are the Earth’s surface and its objects; airspace and outer space; geodetic, cartographic, and navigational coordinate systems; aerial photography and satellite systems; digital elevation, surface and terrain models (DEM, DSM, DTM); geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial databases; cartographic and geodetic documentation.
The purpose of the program: “Training of specialists to perform scientific and pedagogical activities in the field of mine surveying and geotechnics.”
Field of professional activity
The sphere of professional activity of graduates is the sphere of mining science and production, which includes a set of methods, methods and means of spatial and geometric measurements performed during the exploration of mineral deposits, design, construction, operation, liquidation (reconstruction, conservation)mining enterprises.
Objects of professional activity
The objects of professional activity of graduates are: mining, mining enterprises, geological exploration organizations, organizations operating structures for various purposes, and other objects related to the extraction and processing of minerals and the use of underground space.
The purpose of the program: “Training of scientific personnel for geodetic research and pedagogical activities in the field of geodesy.”
Field of professional activity
The sphere of professional activity of graduates is all branches of the economy, including the military industry, civil and industrial construction, state bodies in the field of land management, etc.
Objects of professional activity
The objects of professional activity of graduates are: the surface of the Earth, state geodetic networks and special purpose networks; construction sites of buildings and structures; civil, residential, transport, hydraulic engineering buildings and structures; mineral deposits; land plots, urban areas; natural and natural-anthropogenic systems.
The purpose of the program: “Training of scientific and pedagogical staff for monitoring the Earth’s surface using space technologies.”
The sphere of professional activity of graduates in the field of training 7M07305 “Remote sensing of the Earth” is the acquisition of measuring spatial information about the Earth’s surface, its subsoil, objects of outer space; the display of the Earth’s surface or its individual territories on plans and maps; the implementation of coordinate-time binding of objects, phenomena and processes on the Earth’s surface and in the surrounding space space; construction of digital terrain models; organization and implementation of work on the collection and dissemination of geospatial data both on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan as a whole and in its individual regions in order to develop their infrastructure.
The objects of professional activity of graduates in the direction 7M07305 “Remote sensing of the earth” are: organizations engaged in sounding and geodetic works; mining, mining enterprises, geological exploration organizations, organizations operating structures for various purposes, and other objects related to the extraction and processing of minerals and the use of underground space
The objects of professional activity are also the surface of the Earth, other bodies, territories and water areas, territorial and administrative formations, artificial and natural objects on the surface and inside the Earth and other planets, as well as near-Earth and outer space, atmosphere, geodynamic phenomena and processes, physical fields of the Earth.
The purpose of the program: “Training of specialists for research and pedagogical activities, management of geospatial data of anthropogenic objects.”
Field of professional activity
The sphere of professional activity of graduates includes mining industry, various branches of economy, including military industry, civil and industrial construction, government agencies in the field of land resources management, design and scientific surveys.
Objects of professional activity
The objects of professional activity of doctors (PhD) include research institutes and scientific organizations, higher educational institutions.
The purpose of the program: “Training professionals to manage the geospatial database, monitor the status of mining facilities and ensure safety in the face of current and future challenges.”
Field of professional activity
The professional activities of graduates cover the mining industry, various sectors of the economy, including the military industry, civil and industrial construction, government agencies involved in land management, as well as design and research work in the field of mining science and engineering.
Objects of professional activity
The objects of professional activity of doctors (PhD) are enterprises of mining and metallurgical industry.