Objective: to enable the student to interpret topographic surveys necessary when carrying out architectural, urban planning and landscaping projects and in regional and urban planning. Shape and dimensions of the Earth. Study of the relief. Measurements of angles and distances. Surveying instruments. Planimetry and altimetry. Low, medium and high precision topographic survey methods. Geometric, trigonometric and tacheometric leveling. Topographic maps. Magnetic and true orientation of topographic maps. Fundamentals of aerial photogrammetry, photointerpretation and remote sensing.