Spatial Data Adjustment 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 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Geo 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of spatial data adjustment is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
MEASUREMENT AND ERROR Concepts of measurement and Error – Types of errors – Elementary concepts in probability -Reliability of measurement – significant figures – Error Propagation – linearization – Multi-variate distribution-Error ellipse-Weights of an observation- Stochastic model and Functional model.
Unit II
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Unit III
VARIANCE COVARIANCE PROPAGATION Random events and probability – Random variables – continuous probability distributions – normal distribution – Expectation – measures of precision and accuracy – covariance and correlation -covariance, cofactor and weight matrices – Introduction to sampling – Derivation of the propagation laws-Examples-step wise propagation.
Unit IV
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Unit V
GEODETIC COMPUTATIONS Rectangular, Polar and Spherical Co -ordinates-First and Second geodetic problem- methods of point determinations: intersection, resection, arc section and also with over determinations – Two Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Transformation adjustments.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Mikhail, E.M. and Gracie G., Analysis and adjustment of Survey measurements, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 2005
- Paul.R.Wolf and Charles. D.Ghilani, Adjustment Computations -Statistics and least squares in surveying and GIS, John Wiley and sons inc.,6th Edition,2017.
Reference Books:
- P.J.G.Teunissen, Adjustment theory an introduction, VSSD. 2006
- OSCAR S. ADAMS, GEODESY: Application of the Theory of Least Squares to The Adjustment of Triangulation, Japanese Edition, Nabu Press, 2012.
- Brinker Russell C Minnick Roy, The Surveying Hand Book, Volume-II, Springer,2nd Edition,1995.
- Edward L. Ingram, Geodetic Surveying and the adjustment of observations (Method of Least Squares),Forgotten Books,2018.
- Dr. B.C. Punmia, Ashok K.Jain and Arun K.Jain, Surveying Vol-III, Laxmi Publications Pvt Ltd.,17th Revised Edition,2005.
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Geoinformatics Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit Geo 7th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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