Surveying-Ii: CE-225 (P) Surveying Lab - Ii List of Experiments
Surveying-Ii: CE-225 (P) Surveying Lab - Ii List of Experiments
1. Traversing and Triangulation: Compass and theodolite traverses- balancing and adjustment
of traverses, computation of coordinates, omitted measurements Triangulation- network,
strength of figures, selection of stations, inter-visibility, satellite stations, measurements and
computations;
2. Area and volume computation: Area of a traverse, determining area from plans, area of X-
section, volume from X-section, corrections, mass haul diagram
3. Photogrammetry : Aerial Photographs- Basic terms & Definitions, scales, relief
displacements, Flight Planning, Stereoscopy, Characteristics of photographic images,
Fundamentals of aerial photo-interpretation
4. Modern Surveying Equipment: Introduction, Electronic distance measuring instrument,
automatic and digital level, electronic theodolite, total station.
5. Global Positioning System (GPS):Introduction, GPS principles, Satellite navigation System,
GPS- Space segment, Control segment, User segment, GPS satellite signals, Receivers, Static,
Kinematic and Differential GPS
6. Remote Sensing and GISIntroduction, electromagnetic radiation, target interaction, remote
sensing systems, remote sensing from space, applications of remote sensing, Geographic
information systems- concepts and introduction
REFERENCES:
1. Surveying Vol. 1&2 : Punmia .B.C.
2. Surveying Vol 1&2 : Arora.K.R.
3. Higher Surveying : A. M.Chandra
4. Engineering Survey : W. Schofield;
1. Total station set up and finding slope, horizontal distance and vertical distances.
2. Total station traversing.
3. Collecting topographic data using total station.
4. Data downloading from total station and topographic map compilation.
5. Staking out horizontal/vertical curve using total station
6. Collecting topographic data using hand held GPS.
7. Collecting data using DGPS in static/RTK mode
8. Processing DGPS data.
9. Elementary processing of satellite data, generation of colour composite, land cover/land use
classification using ERDAS Imagine/ILWIS
10. Generation of DTM and 3D view from stereo satellite images using photogrammetric software.
11. Georeferencing, creating and editing data in ArcGIS.
12. Creating a professional map in ArcGIS.