INS 252E - Surveying

Course Objectives

To improve the skills about, land survey, topographic measurements and applications.
2. To improve the skills about map use, cartometric evaluation on maps 3.To improve the skills about producing topographic maps.

Course Description

Introduction. Measurement Units and Scale. Sources of Measurement Errors, Distance Measurement. Survey Instruments. Simple Angle Measurements and Traversing. Basic Homeworks, Bearing. Open and Closed Traverse, Coordinate Computation. Height Measurements, Geometric Levelling. Vertical Angles, Trigonometric Levelling. Profiles and Cross Sections, Surface Levelling. Tacheometry. Characteristics of Contour, Map Drawing. Area and Volume Computation. Application.