GI3411: Total Station and GPS Surveying Laboratory syllabus for Geo 2021 regulation

Total Station and GPS Surveying Laboratory detailed syllabus for Geoinformatics Engineering (Geo) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University 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 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Geo 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of total station and gps surveying laboratory is as follows.

Course Objectives:

• To train the students to acquire skill in making precise measurements and obtaining accurate results with Total Station and GPS.

Excercises:

1. Temporary adjustment of Total station and Angle, Distance and Coordinate measurement
2. Establishment of Horizontal control point by Traversing
3. To determine the instrument station coordinate by Resection method (Angles only and Distances only)
4. Application COGO function: Area, MLM / Inverse function, REM and offsets
5. Planimetric mapping using Total Station
6. Preparation of Contour map using Total Station
7. Setting out: by Coordinates, by Distance and angle, Points at equal length
8. Navigation and Feature collection using handheld GPS
9. GNSS Planning
10. Accuracy evaluation of baseline with different common observation times
11. Establishment of Ground Control Point using Static / Rapid Static differential GNSS survey by Lee Frog Method
12. Establishment of Ground Control Point using Static / Rapid Static differential GNSS survey by Trilateration method
13. Preparation of Planimetric map using Post Processed Kinematic (PPK) method
14. Network Adjustment of GNSS observation

Course Outcomes:

On completion of the course, the student is expected to

1. Gain the basic idea about Total station and GNSS.
2. Acquire knowledge about establishment of horizontal control point using Total station and GNSS.
3. Impart Knowledge in preparation of contour map using Total station and GNSS.
4. Understand the various coordinate geometry function in Total station and GPS
5. Gain knowledge about Total station and GNSS data processing, network adjustment and Mapping.

Reference Books:

1. Rueger, J.M. Electronic Distance Measurement, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 4th Edition,1996.
2. Satheesh Gopi, rasathishkumar, N.madhu, Advanced Surveying , Total Station GPS and Remote Sensing Pearson education , 2nd Edition,2017. isbn: 978-81317 00679.
3. Seeber G, Satellite Geodesy, Walter De Gruyter, Berlin, 2003
4. R.Subramanian, Surveying and Levelling, Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 2012.
5. Laurila, S.H. Electronic Surveying in Practice, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 1983
6. Guocheng Xu, GPS Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Springer – Verlag, Berlin,3rd Edition,2016.
7. Alfred Leick, GPS satellite surveying, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 4th Edition, 2015.

For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Geoinformatics Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit Geo 4th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.

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