Surveying & Geomatics

Principles, classification, scales, errors and their corrections

Instruments, chain triangulation, offset survey, field book

Prismatic compass, whole circle bearing, fore & back bearing, local attraction

Types of levelling, reduction of levels, booking, correction for curvature & refraction

Description, temporary & permanent adjustments, horizontal & vertical angles

Stadia method, tangential method, distance & elevation formulae

Methods: radiation, intersection, traversing, resection

Open & closed traverse, Bowditch rule, transit rule, closing error

Simple, compound, reverse and transition curves; vertical curves

EDM, total station operations, GPS principles, DGPS, accuracy

Electromagnetic spectrum, sensors, image interpretation, GIS applications

Types of photographs, scale, relief displacement, aerial photogrammetry basics