Available in 2024
Course code

SURV2220

Units

10 units

Level

2000 level

Course handbook

Description

This course presents the theory and practice of surveying equipment including electronic distance measurement devices, theodolites (total stations), and global navigation satellite system.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 2 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Identify a range of surveying instrumentation, both past and present.

2. Demonstrate the application and capabilities of these instruments.

3. Test and calibrate the surveying instruments.

4. Reduce raw observations data from surveying instruments to a useable form.

5. Analyse the results obtained and portray them in a cogent manner.

6. Implement the theory, practice and management issues with the use of electronic distance measurement.

7. Implement the theory, practice and management issues with the Global Navigation Satellite System.


Content

  • Working principles, design, and error of theodolite
  • Electronic distance measurement instruments
  • Global navigation satellite system
  • Practice with surveying equipment

Assumed knowledge

SURV1200 Introduction to Surveying; SURV2210 Engineering Surveying; Math and Physics courses in Year 1 (calculus, matrices, algebra, optics).


Assessment items

Written Assignment: Theodolite Testing and Calibration

Written Assignment: EDM Velocity Corrections

Written Assignment: EDMI Calibration

Written Assignment: GNSS Baseline Determination

Online Open Book Formal Examination: Formal Examination


Contact hours

Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan

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  • Face to Face On Campus 4 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
  • There are two 2-hour long lectures per week. For some weeks, they will be used for fieldwork. The above distribution of contact hours may alter on a weekly basis and will be confirmed in the course outline handed to students in Week 1.

Course outline

Course outline not yet available.