Visualização de ferramenta para levantamento planialtimétrico: TOPOFREE

Abstract

Topography is understood as the study of the behavior of the terrestrial surface in a delimited portion of area. To detail this surface, topographic coordinates are calculated from the field data set to describe and characterize surface relief both as planimetric and altimetric. In order to carry out these coordinate calculations, a tool of assistance to the academic or professional was developed at the Federal University of Pampa, Campus Itaqui, which supports its topographic analysis of data measured in the field. TOPOFREE is a tool that receives readings of angles and distances between measured points, and results in a text file containing the description and the coordinates of a delimited area. In software development the process of diagramming how a tool is developed is used, so that it can be exposed both in planning and in the idealization of possible updates. For this purpose, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is applied to explain the TOPOFREE tool in its most important components, through the described structural diagrams. In addition, it is associated with the coordinates calculated by the tool, the possibility of visualization when integrating an extension file used in CAD (Computer Aided Design) projects, allowing the academic user or professional of the area, a representation of their measured area, which can be handled with the help of an external CAD platform. With this, it is observed the importance of understanding the TOPOFREE tool in its structure and functionalities, applying this understanding in updates that make possible to contribute to the constant progress of the study of topography.