MAD 312 - Topography

Course Objectives

1 - 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. Under Ground Surveying Principles and Datum Systems. Select of Measurements points, Construction, Traverse Measurements and Computations