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


Area: Department of Spatial Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
 
** 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. **
 
Other: 1 x 5 Hours Weekly
Other Requisite(s): Admission: to Postgraduate Spatial Science program.
 
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 (eg GPS, 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, determination of deformations (finite element method with least squares adjustment). Applications of GPS, fast-static, kinematic, real-time kinematic, integration of GPS and terrestrial surveying data, GPS quality assurance. The photogrammetric process (hardware, software, problems and limitations) to industrial, mining and structural engineering.
 
** 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. **
 
Field of Education: 031100 Geomatic Engineering (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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