Area: |
Department of Spatial Sciences |
Credits: |
25.0 |
Contact Hours: |
150.0 |
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| ** 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. ** |
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Lecture: |
4 x 2 Hours Yearly |
Fieldwork: |
2 x 2 Weeks Yearly |
Prerequisite(s): |
10464 (v.2) Physical Geodesy 481
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Other Requisite(s): |
First Aid Certificate: Students undertaking this unit are required to have completed an Approved First Aid Course prior to enrolment.
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Syllabus: |
A field camp under as realistic as possible conditions, involving teamwork and organisational skills development in order to complete three-dimensional geodetic surveys to a prescribed precision, and a hypothetical rural subdivision according to Western Australian legislation. The field surveys include, but are not limited to - reconnaissance, triangulation, triliteration, traversing, GPS, EDM, astronomical observations, spirit leveling, datum transformations, map projections, and least squares network adjustment and analysis. Auxiliary yet important activities include, but are not limited to - equipment calibration, project cost estimation, logistical planning, and professional report presentation to 'clients' in a production-type environment. Comprises lectures of two hours, twice per semester and two weeks per semester. |
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| ** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** |
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Field of Education: |
31100 Geomatic Engineering (Narrow Grouping) |
HECS Band (if applicable): |
2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information: |
Informational |
Result Type: |
Grade/Mark |
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Availability |
| Year |
Location |
Period |
Internal |
Area External |
Central External |
| 2004 |
Bentley Campus |
Semester 2 |
Y |
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Area
External |
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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