CIV 274 - Advanced Geomatics at Tidewater Community College
Course Description
Effective: 2016-01-08
Teaches the art, science, and technologies used in the determination of position. Introduces survey statistics, coordinate systems and datums, principles of photogrammetry, mapping, map projections, boundary surveys, public land surveys, Global Positioning System (GPS), and Geographic Information System (GIS) concepts. Prepares students for applicable areas of the State Land Surveyor Examination and the Land Surveyors-in-Training Examination.
Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits
General Course Purpose
To introduce students to advanced surveying topics and methods.
Course Objectives
- Define the roles and responsibilities of surveying professionals and the comprehensive theories and applications of surveying.
- Summarize the proper procedures and use of surveying equipment for control, layout and boundary surveys.
- Perform complex surveying computations to determine vertical and horizontal positions, directions of lines, distances between points and location of property boundary.
- Prepare a boundary plat from record and surveying data/information.
- Summarize and identify the procedures used in the Public Land Survey System.
- Describe the connection between map projections, coordinate systems, datums, ellipsoids, geoids, and transformations.
- Define and compute State Plane Coordinate System for Virginia.
- Plan successful photogrammetric projects to allow for proper flight lines and data collections.
- Assess accuracies and limits of photogrammetric methods and products.
Major Topics to be Included
- Theory of errors in observations
- Coordinate geometry in surveying calculations
- Adjustments by Least Squares
- Mapping
- Control surveys and geodetic reductions
- State Plane Coordinates and other map projections
- Boundary surveys
- Surveys of public lands