Digital Surveying Methods. 3 credits, 4 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: SET 200 and SET 200A . The goal of this course is that students will be taught skills in using robotic and digital geospatial data collection technologies for mapping using Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) methods. The course has three parts. Part 1 deals with data collection, where both analogue and digital data collectors of field observations are covered. Methods focus on approaches that minimized the contribution for operator and instrument errors on the observations. In part 2, emphasis is on data preparation, reductions, and processing for coordinate computations. Part 3 focuses on CAD methods for preparing as-built site plans, plat or survey diagram, survey work plan, CAD modeling capabilities to construct a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) or a Digital Surface Model (DSM), topographic mapping outputs, and construct GIS layers from survey data. The emphasis of this course is on hands-on exercises in the practice of geospatial data collection, handling instrumentation, data processing and data representation.