Online Courses Handbook 2003

10458 (v.2) Measurement and Adjustment Analysis 381

Area:	Department of Spatial Sciences
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	8039 (v.6) Mathematics 274 or any previous version AND 10457 (v.4) Engineering and Control Surveying 281 or any previous version
Functional and stochastic models. Linearisation by Taylor's series. Review of variance propagation. Correlated observations. The parametric, condition and combined adjustment models. Adjustment of survey networks. Introduction to datum definition. Least squares coordinate transformations. Statistical assessment of adjustment results. Assignment of class and order to networks. Introduction to pre-analysis and network design. Sequential least-squares estimation. Parameter constraints and observations.