CIVL 3830

An introduction to the principles, calculations and equipment used in surveying and geomatics is presented with focus on their applications to civil and mineral resource engineering. Topics include fundamentals of distance measurement and surveying, leveling, traverses, corrections, GPS and Total Station instruments, coordinate systems and geodetic reductions, Geographic Information Systems, and engineering applications of geomatics with particular focus on common civil engineering and mining construction activities. Laboratory exercises will cover the basics of surveying techniques, building up to an exercise in combining a measured GPS data set to a pre-existing GIS database for engineering design considerations of a facility.