Online Courses Handbook 2003

10424 (v.2) Coordinate and Mapping Systems 282

Area:	Department of Spatial Sciences
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	4579 (v.2) Mathematics 181 OR 12165 (v.2) Mathematics 133
Elementary geodesy. Coordinate systems and transformations. Computations on the spheroid. The geoid. Geocentric Datum of Australia, GDA94. Other Australian datums and map projections. Mercator's projections - UTM, local grids. Computations on the Map Grid of Australia. Traverse computations. The Australian Height Datum and orthometric heights. Introduction to the Global Positioning System, GPS. Three dimensional coordinate transformations.

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