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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

10424 (v.3) Coordinate and Mapping Systems 210

Area: Department of Spatial Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Computer Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 311054 (v.1) Mathematics 146 or any previous version
OR
10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version
OR
7492 (v.5) Mathematics 104 or any previous version
OR
Admission into 301130 (v.5) Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science or any previous version
OR
Admission into 155006 (v.7) Graduate Diploma in Geographic Information Science or any previous version
OR
Admission into 310057 (v.4) Master of Science (Geospatial Science) or any previous version
Syllabus: Elementary geodesy. Coordinate systems and transformations. Computations on the spheroid. The geoid. Geocentric Datum of Australia and GDA94. Other Australian datums and map projections. Mercator's projections: UTM and local grids. Computations on the map grid of Australia. Traverse computations. The Australian height datum and orthometric heights. Introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS). 3D coordinate transformations.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 031100 Geomatic Engineering (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2013 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2013 Bentley Campus Semester 2         Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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