Surveying and Geomatics

Introduction to Surveying: Definition, Classification, Principles, Survey stations and Survey lines; Introduction to measurement of distance, direction and elevation; Ranging and it methods, Meridians and Bearings. Methods of leveling, Booking and reducing levels, Profile leveling and cross sectioning, Contouring: Characteristics, methods, uses, computation of areas and volumes. Triangulation: Figures or systems, Signals, Satellite station, Baseline and its importance, tape corrections.

Curves: Elements of simple circular curves, Theory and methods of setting out simple circular curves, Transition curves- types, characteristics and equations of various transition curves; Introduction to vertical curves.

Modern Field Survey Systems: Principle and types of Electronic Distance Measurement systems and instruments, Total Station- its advantages and applications; Global Positioning Systems Segments, working principle, errors and biases. Geographic Information System: Concepts and data types, data models, data acquisition. GIS applications in civil engineering.

Photogrammetry: aerial and terrestrial, types and geometry of aerial photograph, scale and flying height, relief (elevation) displacement, parallax, stereo pair and stereovision, stereoscopes, 3D mapping, height determination, digital photogrammetry, photogrammetric mapping, applications of photogrammetry

Remote Sensing: Basic/ Ideal remote sensing, interaction mechanism with atmospheric and earth surface, atmospheric windows, multi concept of remote sensing, spectral signatures, various platforms and sensors, Digital image analysis: Supervised and unsupervised image classification methods, Accuracy assessment. Applications of remote sensing to civil engineering. Introduction to LIDAR and Drone survey