- International Fees
International fees are typically 3.25 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
Course Overview
Students will perform total station instrument setups, checks and calibration for both infrared and reflectorless technology. Students will also carry out angle and distance measurement procedures, direct and remote elevation determination, traversing procedures, topographic/detail surveys and construction layout. The course will cover both onboard digital and manual data collection and on-board data processing in a variety of industry standard scenarios. Students will also, cover the theory and computations required to fully understand: non electronic distance measurement, bearings, distances and rectangular coordinates, traversing and traverse adjustment, areas and volumes and horizontal circular curves.
- Not offered this term
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Define survey terminology.
- Non-electronic distance measurement and reduction.
- Describe the components of the total station, set up a total station over a point.
- Calibrate a total station for distance and angle measurement.
- Adjust total station operational settings for a variety of scenarios.
- Compute bearings from coordinates and coordinates from bearings and distances.
- Measure horizontal angles, zenith angles and slope distances.
- Compute and adjust horizontal traverses using the compass rule.
- Measure reflectorless and infra red distances.
- Collect manual and digital field data and use on-board total station software for survey analysis.
- Carry out a closed traverse using a total station.
- Carry out a 3D topographic survey using a total station.
- Layout a point.
- Compute areas and volumes by various methods.
- Measure areas.
- Identify and compute components of horizontal circular curves.
Effective as of Winter 2008
Programs and courses are subject to change without notice.