Land Surveying 1

Instruments:
- Focus is on physical instrumental mechanisms, and quality controls/calibrations:
- Instrument checking, calibration and documentation

Measurement techniques:
- Leveling
- Surveying with total stations
- Polar setting out
- Resection
- Simple satellite surveying by RTK
- Setting out for building construction

Computations:
- Simple manual computation of coordinates and heights:
- Documentation
- Computing standards, Geodatastandarden

Accuracy:
- Theories and practices necessary to be able to follow the topics introduced under Instruments, Techniques and Computations:
-- Types of error, their recognition, and prevention possibilities
-- The mean (average)
-- Standard deviation
-- Normal distribution
-- Combining the estimated errors of independent observations
-- Brief introduction to simple survey adjustment

Additional topics:
- Interpretation of technical drawings
- Movement of digital data between PCs and electronic field controllers
- Reports writing

Knowledge in:
- Basic measuring methods
- Use of measurement instruments
- Manual computation of coordinates and heights, accuracy computation.
- Documentation and standards.
Skills:
- Ability to work with measuring instruments
General competence:
- Basic use of measuring instruments and software, ability to process data both manually and in software, do documentation and write reports.

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