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Course Number 2108501
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Credit 3
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Course title Fundamentals of
Surveying and Mapping
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Faculty/Department Engineering/Survey Engineering
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Semester One
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Year 2002
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Lecturer Dr. Chalermchon
Satirapod
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Condition
8.1
Preriquisite No
8.2
Corequisite No
8.3
Concurrent No
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Course Status Compulsory course
10 Program Master
of Science in Spatial Information System in Engineering
11 Course level
Master degree
12 No. of hrs per week Lecture
2 hrs / Practical 3 hrs
13 Course Description
Shape
of earth; reference ellipsoids; positioning on earth surface; map projections
scale and distortion; 2-d and 3-d coordinate transformation; model of
measurement; error and error propagation; mapping and map updating techniques.
14 Course overview
14.1
Objective: An
understanding of basic principles of surveying and mapping techniques both
theoretical and practical aspects
14.2
Schedule of lectures and
practicals: See an attachment
14.3
Course style: Both lectures and practicals
14.4
Teaching materials: web
page, study kit, lecture materials and surveying equipment
14.5
Assessment: Assessment
for the 2108501 will be split according to the following proportions:
-Practical reports (8 practicals) 40
%
-Mini-quizzes (2 quizzes) 20
%
-Two major assignments 40 %
15 References:
1.
Bannister, A., Raymond, S. and Baker, R. (1998) Surveying (7th
edition), Addison Wesley Longman Limited, England, 502pp.
2.
Dana, P. H. (1997) The Shape of the Earth, NCGIA Core Curriculum in
GIScience, http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/units/u015/u015.html
3.
Hofmann-Wellenhof, B., Lichtenegger, H. and
Collins, J. (1997) Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice (4th
edition), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 389pp.
4.
Kers, A.J. (1987) Map Revision, ITC lecture note, May 1987.
5.
Lliffe, J. (2000) Datums and Map Projections for remote sensing,
GIS, and surveying, Whittles Publishing, Scotland, UK, 150pp.
6.
Moffitt, F.H. and Bossler J.D. (1998) Surveying (10th
edition), Addison Wesley Longman Inc., California, 738pp.
7.
Satirapod, C. (2002) Improving the GPS Data Processing Algorithm for
Precise Static Relative Positioning, Ph.D. thesis, The University of New South
Wales, Sydney, Australia, 131pp.
8.
Wolf, P.R. and Brinker, R.C. (1994) Elementary Surveying (9th
edition), HarperCollins College Publishers, New York, 760pp.
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Week No. |
Topics |
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Introduction, Definition of Surveying, History of Surveying, Geodetic and Plane Surveying, Surveying Organization |
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Shape of Earth Surface, Historic Development, Geoid, Reference Ellipsoid and Spheroid, Coordinate Systems, Datum |
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Theory of Measurements and Errors |
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Measurement of Horizontal Distances |
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The Measurement of Angles |
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Horizontal Positioning Methods: Traversing and Triangulation |
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Vertical Positioning Methods: Leveling-Theory, Methods, Equipment/ Mini-quiz No.1 /Distribute the 1st assignment |
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--------Mid session break, Work on the 1st assignment--------- |
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Three-dimensional Positioning by GPS/ Hand in the 1st assignment |
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Introduction to Map Projections |
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Coordinate Transformation / Distribute the 2nd assignment |
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Mapping & Map Updating Techniques |
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Mini-quiz No.2 |
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Work on the 2nd assignment |
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Hand in the 2nd assignment |
Week No.
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Topics
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Introduction and assign survey party |
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Pacing and reconnaissance |
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Introduction to theodolite & Measurements of horizontal and vertical angles |
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Traversing |
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Computation of traverse |
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Introduction to leveling |
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Differential leveling & its computation |
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----Mid session break----- |
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3-d Positioning by handheld GPS |
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Coordinate transformation |
Resources:
Geodesy for the
Layman (Download PDF)
Geocentric Datum of Australia (Download PDF)
Information
provided for the 2nd Assignment:
Geodetic
coordinate file Download here