Course

Surveying and Geospatial Engineering - GMAT1110

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Course Outline: course profile

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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Description

Surveying and Geospatial Engineering deals with the science of determining relative positions of features above, on or below the surface of the Earth for a range of mapping, engineering and construction operations. The course combines lectures, workshops and outdoor practical exercises using modern electronic surveying equipment. Topics include levelling, orientation, distance measurement which combine into coordinate reference systems. Also traversing and control surveys, electronic detail surveys, construction setout, GPS satellite positioning, geographic information systems (GIS) and sources of geospatial data such as remote sensing, aerial photography and satellite imagery. Basic land law and cadastral surveying for NSW is introduced. The student will learn some basic surveying computations to critically assess spatial data quality. Students will be expected to have a good background in trigonometry and geometry from high school mathematics.


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