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This document outlines the course Surveying II which is offered by the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The course is worth 5 ECTS credits and covers topics such as coordinate systems, topographic surveying and mapping, setting out surveys, photogrammetry, GNSS, remote sensing, and GIS. Students will be assessed based on assignments/projects (20%), tests (30%), and a final exam (50%). The minimum attendance requirements and recommended references are also provided.

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Course Outline

This document outlines the course Surveying II which is offered by the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The course is worth 5 ECTS credits and covers topics such as coordinate systems, topographic surveying and mapping, setting out surveys, photogrammetry, GNSS, remote sensing, and GIS. Students will be assessed based on assignments/projects (20%), tests (30%), and a final exam (50%). The minimum attendance requirements and recommended references are also provided.

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Addis Ababa Institute of Technology

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Course : Surveying II (CENG -2092)_ (5 ECTS.)

Course outline
Chapter 1: Coordinate System
1.1 Geoids and ellipsoids
1.2 Heights System
1.3 Reference systems and reference frames
1.4 Coordinate transformations
1.5 Deformation Monitoring Techniques
Chapter 2: Topographic Surveying and Mapping
2.1 Basic Methods for Performing Mapping Surveys
2.2 Contours References
2.3 Digital Elevation Models
2.4 Map Drafting Schofield W., Beach M. (2007)
2.5 Source of Error in Mapping Engineering Surveying, 6th edition,
2.6 Application of topographic maps Elsevier
for Civil Engineering
Chapter 3 - Setting out Survey Uren, J. and Price, W.F. (2010),
3.1 Highway Curves and Setting Out Surveying for Engineers, 5th edition,
3.2 Building Setting out Palgrave Macmillan
3.3 Setting Out of Bridge and Culvert
3.4 Setting Out of Drainage Lines or Pipes Wolf, P. R. and Ghilani, C. D.
3.5 Underground Survey (2012), Elementary Surveying: An
Chapter 4 - Photogrammetry Introduction to Geomatics, 13th
4.1 Principles of Photography and Imaging edition, Prentice Hall.
4.2 Vertical photographs
4.3 Stereoscope viewing and parallax,
4.4 Introduction to Analytical Photogrammetry
4.5 Control for Aerial Photogrammetry Requirements
4.6 DEM generation and Orthorectification
4.7 Project Planning Minimum of 85 % attendance during
Chapter 5 - Introduction to GNSS lectures and 100 % attendance during
5.1 The development of GNSS practical work sessions, except for
5.2 Components of GNSS some unprecedented mishaps.
5.3 GPS positioning methods
5.4 Errors in GPS
5.5 Differential and relative GPS
Assessment
5.6 Surveying with GNSS
5.7 GNSS in engineering surveying
Assignment/project = 20%
Chapter 6 - Introduction to Remote Sensing
6.1 Principle of remote sensing Test-1 and Test -2 = 30%
6.2 Types of resolution
6.3 Types of satellite images Final Exam =50%
Chapter 7 – Introduction to GIS
7.1 GIS Data Sources and Classifications
7.2 Spatial Data
7.3 Non-spatial Data
7.4 GIS Analytical Functions
7.5 GIS Applications

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