Online Courses Handbook 2003

307424 (v.1) Coordinate and Mapping Systems 582

Area:	Department of Spatial Sciences
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Other:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Other Requisite(s):	Admission: Admission in a graduate course within the Department of Spatial Sciences
Elementry geodesy. Coordinate systems and transformations. Computations on the spheroid. The geoid. Geocentric Datum of Australia, GDA94. Other Australian datums and map projections. Mecator's projections - UTM, local grids. Computations on the map gridof Australia. Traverse computations. The Australian height datum and orthmetric heights. Introduction to the Global Positioning System, GPS. Three dimensional coordinate transformations.

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