Online Courses Handbook 2003

10457 (v.4) Engineering and Control Surveying 281

Area:	Department of Spatial Sciences
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork:	1 x 1 Weeks Quarterly
Prerequisite(s):	10418 (v.2) Plane and Construction Surveying 181 AND 10416 (v.2) Survey Computations 185
Geometric aspects of road and railway design, terrain modelling, measurement and computation of volumes. Adjustment and maintenance of surveying instruments. Transfer of geodetic and engineering control, construction surveying and set-out techniques. As constructed surveys. Surveying software. Use and calibration of survey instrumentation: total stations, electronic distance measurement (EDM) devices, spirit levelling and trigonometric heighting. Field checks. Reduction of survey measurements to the spheroid. Introductory least-squares adjustment of control networks. Part of the assessment for this unit includes a one-week survey camp.

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