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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

10443 (v.3) Precise Engineering and Deformation Surveys 682

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Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Spatial Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Directed study and research. Special topics related to advanced engineering surveying. Special surveying methods and instrumentation of high precision. Applications of laser scanning. Principles, operational aspects and integration with other sensors (for example the global positioning system (GPS) and the inertial guidance system (INS)). Spatial measurements of high-precision coordination methods for industrial setting-out and quality assurance. Instrumentation, calibration, observing procedures and accuracy assessment. Integrated analysis of deformations, methods of measuring deformation of natural and man-made structures and determination of deformations (finite element method with least squares adjustment). Applications of GPS, fast-static, kinematic, real-timekinematic, integration of GPS and terrestrial surveying data, GPS quality assurance. The photogrammetric process (hardware, software, problems and limitations) to industrial, mining and structural engineering.
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
2012 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