Total Station and GPS Surveying detailed syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Civil 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 Civil Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Civil 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to Civil Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of total station and gps surveying is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
FUNDAMENTALS OF TOTAL STATION AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES 9 Methods of Measuring Distance, Basic Principles of Total Station, Historical Development, Classifications, applications and comparison with conventional surveying – Applications of Electromagnetic waves, Propagation properties, wave propagation at lower and higher frequencies -Refractive index (RI) – factors affecting RI -Computation of group for light and near infrared waves at standard and ambient conditions – Computation of RI for microwaves at ambient condition -Reference refractive index -Real-time application of first velocity correction. Measurement of atmospheric parameters – Mean refractive index – Second velocity correction -Total atmospheric correction – Use of temperature -pressure, transducers.
Unit II
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Unit III
SATELLITE SYSTEM 9 Basic concepts of GPS – Historical perspective and development – applications -Geoid and Ellipsoid – satellite orbital motion – Keplerian motion – Keplers Law – Perturbing forces -Geodetic satellite -Doppler effect – Positioning concept – GNSS and IRNSS – SBAS: GAGAN and WAAS Different segments – space, control and user segments – satellite configuration – GPS signal structure – Orbit determination and representation – Anti Spoofing and Selective Availability -Task of control segment – GPS receivers.
Unit IV
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Unit V
SURVEYING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 9 Total Station: Traversing and Trilateration measurement and adjustment -Planimetric map and Contour map and Topography Mapping. GNSS: Concepts of rapid, static, semi-Kinematic, pure Kinematic and RTK methods. Observation by Radiation, Lee frog and Trilateration measurement and processing -Topography mapping using PPK and RTK methods Total Station and GNSS applications
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Rueger, J.M. Electronic Distance Measurement, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 4th Edition,1996.
- SatheeshGopi, rasathishkumar, N.madhu, Advanced Surveying , Total Station GPS and Remote Sensing Pearson education , 2nd Edition,2017. isbn: 978-81317 00679.
- Gunter Seeber , Satellite Geodesy, Walter De Gruyter, Berlin, 2nd Edition, 2003
Reference Books:
- R.Subramanian, Surveying and Levelling, Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 2012.
- Laurila, S.H. Electronic Surveying in Practice, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 1983
- Guocheng Xu, GPS Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Springer – Verlag, Berlin, 3rdEdition, 2016.
- Alfred Leick, GPS satellite surveying, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 4th Edition, 2015.
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