Advanced Surveying
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Advanced Surveying Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Surveying (subject code 2140601) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 4 divides the course into 8 units, covering 40 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2140601)Unit 1 Tacheometric Surveying
- stadia constants
- methods of tacheometry
- anallatic lens
- subtense bar, field work in tacheometry
- reduction of readings
- errors and precisions
Unit 2 Geodetic Surveying-
- Principle and Classification of triangulation system- Selection of base line and stations- Orders of triangulation- Triangulation figures- Station marks and signals- marking signals- Extension of base
- Reduction of Centre
- Selection and marking of stations
Unit 3 Theory of Errors
- types of errors
- laws of accidental errors
- laws of weights
- theory of least squares
- rules for giving weights and distribution of errors to the field observations
- determination of the most probable values of quantities
Unit 4 Field Astronomy
- astronomical terms
- determination of azimuth
- longitude and time corrections to the observations
Unit 5 Aerial photogrammetry
- Aerial camera
- Aerial photographs
- Scale of vertical and tilted photograph
- Ground Co-ordinates
- Displacements and errors
- Ground control
- Procedure of aerial survey
- Photomaps and mosaics
- Parallax bar
Unit 6 Modern Surveying Instruments
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Electromagnetic distance measurement
- Total station
- Digital self-leveling levels
- scanners for topographical survey
Unit 7 Remote Sensing-
- Principles of energy interaction in atmosphere and earth surface features
- Image interpretation techniques
- visual interpretation
- Digital image processing
- Global Positioning system
Unit 8 Geographical Information System-
- Definition of GIS, Key Components of GIS, Functions of GIS, Spatialdata
- spatial information system Geospatial analysis
- Integration of Remote sensing and GIS, and Applications in Civil Engineering
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