hours of lectures and 20 hours of exercises with
computers).
3.1 Projects
3.1.1 Croatian Cartography — Scientific Bases: From 1996
till 2002 the cartographic research at the Institute for Cartogra-
phy was carried out within the project Croatian Cartography —
Scientific Bases financed by the Ministry of Science and
Technology of the Republic of Croatia. The head of the project
was N. Franéula. The common goal of this scientific project
was to improve the scientific bases of the cartographic
development in Croatia. It was therefore necessary to research
the contribution of Croatian cartographers in the development
of cartography in the world. The goal of the project was also to
supplement the Croatian scientific terminology in the field of
cartography and related sciences with modern terms and
concepts. The goal was also to give contributions in the field of
digital cartography: in research of local and global distortions,
map generalisation and map graphics.
The details about the project can be found on the Internet
address http://www.mzt.hr/projekti 9699/2/007001.htm.
3.1.2 Cartography and New Technologies: The work on
the project started in August 2002, and the project leader is M.
Lapaine. The application of new technologies (geoinformation
systems, geomatics, geomedia, Internet, multi-media, expert
systems, artificial intelligence etc.) in Croatian cartography will
be researched and further on developed. Cartographic presen-
tations will be made adequately to up-to-date digital mapping
procedures, modern communication and space visualisation.
The contributions to the research in the field of digital mapping
are expected, especially in the fields of map graphics, map
projections and transformations, and map generalisation.
Croatian cartographic heritage is very rich, but insufficiently
known and insufficiently protected. Hence, the biographic and
bibliographic material about Croatian cartographers will
continue to be systematically gathered and processed. Special
attention will be paid to modern Croatian scientific terminology
in the field of cartography and related areas.
3.1.3 Projects funded by SGA: The following projects were
funded by the State Geodetic Administration in the period
1999-2003:
e Croatian Cartographers (Lapaine et al., 1995; Kljajic,
2001; Franéula et al., 2001)
e Croatian Geodetic Terminology (Francula, Lapaine, 2003)
e Proposal for the Official Map Projections of the Republic
of Croatia (Lapaine, 2000)
e New Cartographics of Official Maps Published by the
State Geodetic Administration (DGU 2001; Franges, 2001)
e Denotation and Denomination of National Topographic
Map Sheets and their Subdivision into Sheets (Franges,
2003a)
eo Toponymy — Naming, Phase I (Franges, 2003b)
e The Printing of National Maps (Franges, 2003c).
3.2 Professional and social activity
The following was made: the tourist map of Croatia — Slovenia
— Bosnia and Herzegovina (authors I. Birin and S. Stefanec), a
new edition of the map National Park Mljet (authors S. Franges,
P. Lovrié and Z. Krizovan), plans of the towns of Rovinj, Cres
and Dubrovnik (authors S. Franges and R. Zupan), facsimiles of
old maps of Zadar and Split (editor S. Franges), general maps
of national parks and nature parks (authors S. Franges, R.
Zupan, D. Tutié and M. Lapaine), a thematic map of the
positions of faculties and other institutions 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002 and 2003 for the Guide of future students at the University
of Zagreb (authors S. Franges and N. Francula).
M. Lapaine is a member of ICA Commission on Spatial Data
Standards, a member of the International Map Collector’s
Society (IMCoS), and International Association of Geodesy
Associate. N. Francula is a full member of the Croatian
Academy of Engineering, and M. Lapaine has been a member
collaborator and the Secretary General since 2003.
Geodetski list is the only geodetic journal in Croatia. It has been
published as a quarterly continuously ever since 1947.
However, geodetic bulletins appeared in this area much earlier.
The first issue of Glasilo geometara was issued in Zagreb in
1919, and its chief editor was Vladimir Filkuka, professor at the
Royal High Technical School of that time. The present
Geodetski list is the bulletin of the Croatian Geodetic Society,
and scientific and professional papers, terminology papers,
book reviews and news are published in it. The papers
published in Geodetski list are referred to in a few secondary
publications and databases. A long-time chief editor of
Geodetski list was N. Francula, and now it is S. Franges, both
of them from the Institute for Cartography.
More details about the Institute for Cartography at the Faculty
of Geodesy, University of Zagreb can be found on the Internet
address http://www.geof.hr/
4. INSTITUTE FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY
The Institute for Photogrammetry Zagreb, Borongajska cesta
71, is one of the most important institutions for Croatian
geodesy, not only because of the extent and quantity of
executed geodetic works, but also because of the pioneer role
that it has had for more than 40 years of existence, since its
foundation in 1961, in introducing and applying modern
technologies in the profession and in the development of
geodetic activity in Croatia.
The company is technically and professionally capable of
carrying out all geodetic works, and it encompasses:
e basic works and higher geodesy,
e cadastre and practical geodesy,
e engineering and applied geodesy,
e photogrammetry and topographic survey,
e cartography and spatial information systems.
The Institute for Photogrammetry employs 75 workers, mostly
engineers and technicians of geodesy, and it consists of
Technical department and Financial and administrative
department. The Technical department is divided into two
sectors — Surveying and Processing sector — that are constituted
from five teams. In the Surveying sector the works are carried
out in connection with surveying in the field, cadastre and GPS
survey. All photogrammetric work, digital data processing,
production and completion of plans and maps is carried out in
the Processing sector (Paj, 2002).
In recent years, the Institute for Photogrammetry has greatly
enhanced and modernised the production by acquiring three
digital photogrammetric stations, two new-generation GPS
units, an AO format scanner in colour, and other geodetic
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