Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives The student is expected to acquire a basic knowledge and understanding of the methods of field measurement, recording reduction surveying data and the procedures associated with simple engineering survey.
Synopsis Introduction to surveying; chain surveying, principle, equipment, procedure, booking, step and slope chaining, field problems, corrections to and reduction of field measurements, sources of errors. Introduction to levelling principles, use of levels (dumpy, tilting, automatic and laser) booking and reduction of levels, adjustment of level, errors in levelling, applications of levelling. Traverses, angles, bearings, coordinate geometry, misclosure, accuracy, reduction and adjustment with Bowditch rule, determination of missing parts and area of a polygon. Introduction to triangle problems using trigonometrical formulae.
Assessment Examination (3 hours): 80% + Fieldwork: 20%