Subsurface Survey Methods detailed syllabus for Geoinformatics Engineering (Geo) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Geo students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Geoinformatics Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Geo 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to Geo Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of subsurface survey methods is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING Introduction – Shore Line Survey – Soundings – Making the Soundings – Methods of Locating Soundings – Reduction of Soundings – Plotting of Soundings – The Tides – Prediction of Tides -Tide Gauges – Mean Sea Level as datum – River Surveys – Measurement of Current and Discharge – Bathymetric Measurements
Unit II
MINE SURVEYING Measuring the depth of shaft and other working – underground benchmark – Datum – determining throw of fault – gradient of underground road. – Measuring subsidence. Determining the true and apparent dip and strike from bore hole data – Determining the deviation in the borehole drilling -Determining the throw of fault and length of drift to cross the fault – Finding out the bearings and dip of various mine working.
Unit III
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Unit IV
GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SURVEY Electromagnetic principles of GPR – Electrical and magnetixc properties of rocks – soil and fluids -GPR systems; types of GPR – Measurement Configuration – Bands and Polarizations – Manual and Vehicle Mounted GPR – Salient Technical Features of Commercially Available GPR – Ground Penetrating radar surveys: Reflection Survey – Multisource – Multi receiver – Data Processing: Dewow – Time – Gain – Deconvolution – Migration – Topographic Correction – Modeling and Analysis – Processing Software.
Unit V
APPLICATIONS Applications in Ground Water Resources: Depth to water from the land surface – Archeological Science: Identification and Mapping Buried Structures – Mapping of Underground utilities like power cables – Pipelines and other buried utilities – Containment Mapping.
Course Outcomes:
- On completion of the course, the student is expected to
- Plan the subsurface survey for a given project also capable of extending consultancy service for real time Hydrographic and Mining operations
- Apply the knowledge of different methods of survey to map the investigating real field condition.
- Apply the knowledge of survey to measure stope and traverse underground
- Plan the subsurface investigation program for a given project also capable of extending consultancy service for real time Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering problems
- Apply the knowledge of different methods of exploration to select appropriate method of boring for investigating real field condition.
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