Cadastral Surveying 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 cadastral surveying is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
CADASTRE- INTRIDUCTION History of cadastral survey – Types of survey – Tax – Real Property – Legal cadastre -Graphical and Numerical Cadastre, Legal Characteristics of Records- Torrens System
Unit II
METHODS OF SURVEYING Cadastral Survey Methods – survey of villages – Instruments used for cadastral survey -Orthogonal, Polar survey methods – Boundary survey – Rectangulation – town survey – Calculation of area – GPS and Total Station in Cadastral survey
Unit III
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Unit IV
LAND INFORAMTION SYSTEM land records in India – digital conversions of records – NLRMP – DILRMP – smart cities – current systems – international and nationals – digital solutions for land records – examples- Indian initiatives – Tamil nilam
Unit V
MODERN TECHNOLGY Current developments — UAV- UAS -tools and techniques- Laser terrain mapping – documentation – data maintenance – data bases – block chain technology – web technology
Course Outcomes:
- On completion of the course, the student is expected to
- Understand the principles Cadastral system, records and taxation
- Apply various methods used for surveying, mapping and maintenance of cadastral records
- Know the procedure of maintenance and documentation of land records and the current national developments in this regard
- Update with modern surveying technology and geospatial solutions for creation, maintenance and documentation of land records
- Frame the methodology to create and maintain digital cadastre, LIS, etc.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- The (TAMIL NADU) survey and boundaries act, 1923, Tamil Nadu Act No.VIII.
- Cadastral Survey Methodologies and Techniques in Developing Countries, Pertti ONKALO, 2006.
- NLRMP – Guidelines, Technical Manuals and MIS,2009.
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