Overview of the Technology Courses

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Overview of the Technology Courses

• Evergreen Valley College
• San Jose, CA
• Sponsored By the NSF

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Introduction

• This portion of the presentation discusses the
  information on the three new technology courses
  generally required by college curriculum
  committees on approval of new courses.

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Course Description
• Fundamentals of global positioning system (GPS)
  and its applications in land surveying are
  introduced. The discussions include the three
  segments of the GPS, GPS positioning principles
  and error sources. Among the topics studied are
  GPS observables, planning for a GPS field survey,
  GPS data processing, and GPS surveying techniques
  such as Static, Kinematic and RTK methods.
  Emphases are given to practical applications of
  GPS technology in surveying.

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lectures
• 1. Introduction
• Signal Measurement Techniques
• Geocentric geodetic Reference Systems
• Time Systems
• Satellite Configuration

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lectures
• 2. Principles Of Global Positioning System (GPS)
• What is GPS?
• The GPS reference system
• The GPS system components
• The space segment
• The control segment
• The user segment
• GPS positioning principles

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lectures
• 3. GPS Observations
• Pseudoranges
• Carrier phases
• Differential GPS
• Relative positioning

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lectures
• 4. Sources of Error in GPS Surveying
• Clock error
• Atmospheric inferences
• Multipath
• Satellites configuration
• Instrument setup

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lectures
• 5. GPS Surveying Techniques
• Static
• FastStatic
• Post-processed Kinematic
• RTK

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lectures
• 6. Planning For a GPS Survey
• Preliminary considerations
• Method selection
• Network design
• Field reconnaissance
• Developing an observation scheme
• Checking reference stations
• Equipment check

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lectures
• 7. Performing GPS Surveying
• Equipment setup
• Surveying with a controller
• Surveying without a controller
• Perform base survey
• Perform rover surveying
• Initialization in Kinematic survey
• Measure points
• Construction stake-out

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lectures
• 8. Post Processing
• Data transfer between controller and office
  computer
• Using office software to process and adjust data
• Import and export data and graphs to CAD and GIS
  programs
• Generate drawings and reports

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lectures
• 9. The Continuously Operating Reference Stations
  (CORS)
• The Network
• CORS Data File
• Use of CORS in GPS Surveying

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lectures
• 10. Future Trend

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lab Activities
• Introduction to GPS equipment
• Equipment setup
• Understanding the controller menu
• Creating a project with the controller
• Editing surveying styles
• Data collection
• Extracting an Almanac file from a receiver
• Creating a site obstruction diagram
• Using plan utilities

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lab Activities
• Setting auto time features
• Viewing satellite graphs
• Editing a session
• Defining and viewing curtains
• Designing a network
• Static surveying
• FastStatic surveying
• Post-processed Kinematic surveying
• Setting up and configuring the radio for RTK

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Lab Activities
• Real-Time Kinemeatic (RTK) surveying
• Performing site calibration
• Staking out a point
• Performing GPS survey with CORS
• Data transfer
• Creating and configuring a processing style
• Processing baseline
• Performing network adjustment
• Importing and exporting to CAD and GIS software

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Learning outcomes
• Describe the principles of GPS surveying.
• Perform planning and network design.
• Setup a GPS system for surveying.
• Perform Post-processed and RTK surveys and
  acquire appropriate GPS data.
• Perform data transfer.
• Post process the GPS data.
• Perform error analysis of the acquired GPS and
  other measured data.
• Generate field notes appropriate to GPS
  surveying.
• Produce written reports to communicate results of
  field surveys.

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Assignments
• Review the history of GPS surveying.
• Explain the advantages of GPS surveying.
• Estimate the accuracy of GPS surveying.
• Study the three segments of the GPS surveying.
• Differentiate the types of receivers.
• Determine the coordinates of a point in space
  when the distance between the point and a known
  point is given.
• Determine distance with code-ranging method.

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Assignments
• Determine distance with carrier-phase method.
• Explain how the integer of ambiguity is resolved
  in carrier-phase measurement.
• Explain relative positioning and differential
  GPS.
• Study the sources of errors in GPS surveying.
• Explain Static, FastStatic, Post-processed
  Kinematic and RTK surveys, their accuracies and
  applications.
• Design networks.

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Assignments
• Develop a survey plan.
• Processing baselines.
• Adjust networks.
• Exchange data between surveying software and CAD
  and GIS.
• Use CORS data to process GPS data.
• Prepare survey report.

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Global Positioning System for Land Surveying

• Textbooks
• Chris Rizos, Principles and Practice of GPS
  Surveying, UNSW 1997
• Paul Wolf, Elementary Surveying, Prentice Hall,
  2002
• Alfred Leick, GPS Satellite Surveying, 2nd ed.,
  Wiley, 1995
• Simon McElroy, Getting Started with GPS
  Surveying, GPSCO, 1996
• Abdie Tabrizi, Lecture notes, 2004
• Trimble Training Manuals, 2005

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Course Description
• This course introduces the fundamentals of
  Geographical Information System as related to
  civil engineering and surveying and how the
  Multipurpose Cadastre (MPC), Land Information
  System (LIS) and Geographical Information System
  (GIS) fit together. Geodetic reference frame,
  base map, cadastral overlay, and linkage
  mechanisms are also discussed. Data quality and
  accuracy, privacy, ethics, institutional,
  governmental and technological issues associated
  with GIS are explored. The Arc GIS software is
  taught and used in the course. GIS applications
  and existing case studies are presented. FGDC
  standards and future trends of GIS are addressed.

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 1. Introduction the multipurpose cadastre
• Background
• Definitions
• The need for a multipurpose cadastre
• The components of the multipurpose cadastre

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• GIS and the land surveyor
• Background information
• Critical issues
• The real property connections
• The role of surveying (geomatics) professionals
• Action plan

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 3. The geodetic reference framework
• Background
• The local geodetic reference frameworks
• Characteristics of geodetic reference framework
• Producers of geodetic reference framework data

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 4. The base map
• Review of the map concepts
• Definitions
• Purpose and use of base map
• Types of base maps
• Combination of planimetric and cadastral approach
• Digital mapping
• Developing a base mapping program

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 5. The cadastral overlay
• Boundary descriptions
• Simultaneous and sequential conveyance
• Evidence of property boundaries
• Fixed and movable boundaries
• Discrepancies among property boundaries
• Description of the public land survey system
  (PLSS)
• Legal description of the PLSS
• Retracement surveys and corner recovery

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 6. Linkage Mechanisms
• Database basics
• The nature of data in an multipurpose land
  information system (MPLIS)
• The nature of data linkage
• Technical considerations for data linkage
• Economic considerations
• Institutional considerations
• Privacy issues

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 7. Resource and environmental overlays
• Raster data
• Vector data
• Data accuracy and quality control
• Topographic mapping
• Topographic mapping standards
• Parcel mapping

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 8. Data sources
• Geographical data collectors and providers
• Acquiring digital datasets from a data supplier
• Creating digital datasets by manual input
• Interpolated data
• Data updating and storage

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 9. Case studies
• Accuracy study
• A county land record system
• BLMs Geographical Coordinate Data Base (GCDB

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 10. Federal Geographical Data Committee (FGDC)
  Standards
• Geospatial standards,
• Fact sheet on standards of FGDC
• FGDC endorsed standards

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 11. GIS design system implementation
• Laying the foundation
• User needs assessment
• System requirements analysis
• Implementation
• Testing

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lectures
• 12. Future trends
• Technology trend
• Changes in data supply
• Changes in users

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lab activities
• ArcView sampler
• Add layers to a view
• Set view properties
• Using the Legend Editor
• Set layer display properties
• Add and edit tables
• Select and summarize records
• Join and link tables
• Create a chart

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Lab activities
• Create and edit shapefiles
• Use layer-on-layer selection
• Join and merge spatial data
• Address geocoding
• Create a map layout
• Create point and linear event layers
• Display images in a view
• Create a base map
• Create a cadastral layer
• GIS design project

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Learning Outcomes
• Use GIS related software.
• Apply GIS knowledge in civil engineering and land
  surveying fields.
• Incorporate CAD drawing and surveying data into
  GIS.
• Analyze and interpret data.
• Build a multipurpose land information system with
  GIS technology by linking geodetic reference,
  base map, cadastral overlay and other information
  overlays.
• Identify, formulate and solve GIS problems.
• Recognize the need for lifelong learning and gain
  lifelong learning skills.
• Recognize the need for professional registration
  or licensing in land surveying.

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Assignments
• Review the definitions and history of GIS.
• Find data sources for GIS, including local
  library, Internet, local and national meetings,
  and user groups.
• Discuss how civil engineers and land surveyors
  can benefit from using GIS.
• Explain how MPC, LIS and GIS fit together.
• Define the components of a database.
• Develop a simple data model for a cadastre.
• Find you local geodetic reference frame.
• Create a simple base map using the cadastral
  approach.
• Create a simple cadastral overlay.

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Assignments
• Define raster and vector data.
• Create a environmental overlay.
• Link the base map, cadastral overlay and
  environmental overlay together with GIS
  technology.
• Discuss the issues related to data accuracy,
  security, privacy and quality control.
• Study the FGDC standards.
• Identify a civil engineering problem and build a
  simple GIS for it.
• Discuss what would happen to GIS technology in
  ten years and how you deal with it.
• Write project reports.
• Practice on the GIS software.
• Prepare for quizzes and exams.

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Geographical Information System for Civil
Engineering and Surveying

• Textbooks
• Ormsby, Napoleon, Burke, Groessl, and Feaster,
  Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, 2004
• FGCS, Multipurpose Land Information Systems the
  Guidebook, Updated through 1994.
• Burrough and McDonnell, Principles of
  Geographical Information System, 1998
• Crossfield, GIS lecture notes, 2004

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Course Description
• This is a course on computer-aided design and
  drafting for civil engineering, surveying and
  land development. The AutoDesk/Land Desktop
  software program will be utilized. Students will
  acquire the necessary computer skills to use the
  software for applications in civil engineering
  design and land development projects. Topics
  include basic drawing component management,
  parcel computations, terrain surface modeling and
  contours, alignments and stationing, cross
  sections, volume computation, and profiles. In
  addition, the course will discuss the creation of
  design templates and improvement plans in civil
  engineering land development projects.

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Lectures Lab Activities
• 1. An overview of Computer aided design and
  drafting (CADD) in civil engineering, surveying
  and land development
• Background
• The need for a separate CADD system
• An overview of AutoDesk Land Desktop civil
  engineering and land development projects
• 2. Drawing set up
• New drawing and project initialization
• Prototypes and projects
• Creating and editing prototypes

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Lectures Lab Activities
• 3. LD points and point management
• Creating and acquiring point data
• Analyzing and reporting point data
• Editing point data
• Annotating point data
• 4. LD Lines and Curves
• Creating lines and curves
• Analyzing line and curve data
• Editing and annotating lines and curves
• Line, arc, and spiral tables
• Point data from lines and arcs

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Lectures Lab Activities
• 5. Parcel Computations
• Settings
• Creating parcels from entities
• Editing lots
• Annotating lots
• 6. Terrain surface modeling and contours
• DTM settings
• Surface and contour data
• Surface analysis
• Editing surfaces

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Lectures Lab Activities
• 7. Roadway design - horizontal alignment
• Settings
• Creating roadway centerlines
• Centerline editing and analysis
• Creating new data from an alignment
• Stationing the alignment
• 8. Roadway design profiles and vertical
  alignment
• Profile settings
• Creating and editing profiles
• Creating a vertical alignment
• Analyzing and editing vertical alignments
• Stationing the alignment

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Lectures Lab Activities
• 9. Cross sections
• Cross section control
• Superelevation control
• Cross section plotting
• Cross section sampling
• Creating cross sections
• 10. Templates
• Defining and editing a template
• Defining and editing a subassembly
• Manipulation of the template

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Lectures Lab Activities
• 11. Transitional alignments
• Transition control and region points
• Processing and viewing transitions
• Transition control of multiple template surfaces
• Importing transition control data
• 12. Slope control and superelevation
• Simple slope control and benching
• Depth, stepped and surface parameters
• Superelevation

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Lectures Lab Activities
• 13. Grading, and grading objects
• Grading with points and contours
• Grading with a 3D polyline
• Grading with grading objects
• 14. AutoDesk survey basics
• Introduction
• Point tools
• Figure functions

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Lectures Lab Activities
• 15. Survey data collection
• Downloading raw files from data collector
• Creating figures directly from the field
• Uploading to the data collector
• 16. Traverse
• Traverse operations
• Multiple observations
• Electronic data traverse

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Lectures Lab Activities
• 17. Volume Computations
• The site volume process
• Site volume settings
• Grid volumes
• Section volumes
• Composite surface volumes
• Parcel volumes
• 18. Creating Improvement plans for civil
  engineering and land development projects
• Processing a roadway design
• Reviewing design results
• Editing a roadway design
• Creating cross sections
• Sheet manager
• Generating points and surface from the final
  design

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Learning outcomes
• Start and set up a new drawing or open an
  existing drawing utilizing AutoCAD/LDD software.
• Create, edit, and manage civil engineering
  features.
• Import and export point data from field surveys
  and external files.
• Perform parcel computations for area, boundary
  information and subdivision.
• Create a finish grade or design surface.
• Create, edit and label contours.
• Design roadways.
• Download and up-load data to a data collector.
• Perform traverse with AutoDesk/LDD.
• Draw and define civil design templates.
• Compute earthwork volumes using alignments,
  profiles, cross sections and design templates.
• Create a set of improvement plans using
  AutoDesk/LDD software (plan view, profile view,
  cross sections, details).

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Assignments
• Review AutoCAD basics.
• Recognize the impacts of LD on AutoCAD upon
  drawing setup.
• Set AEC points in LD.
• Import and Exporting AEC points.
• Adjust rotation, translation and datum.
• Create and labeling LD Lines and Curves.
• Generate line and curve tables.
• Perform LDD parcel computations.
• Create a surface.

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Assignments
• Draw faults and break Lines.
• Create contours from surface data.
• Label and edit contours.
• Define LDD cross sections.
• Calculate earthwork volumes.
• Align curves.
• Station a design.
• Create civil design profiles.
• Define and draw Civil Design Templates.
• Perform volume computation in civil design.

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CAD for Civil Engineering, Surveying and Land
Development

• Textbooks
• Coleman, Geoffery J., Introduction to Land
  Development Desktop 2005 and Civil Design 2005,
  Schroff Development Corporation Publishing, 2004
• Zimmerman, Phillip J., Harnessing AutoCAD Land
  Development Desktop, Delmar Learning, 2001