GE 353 — Geodetic Surveying I
BSc BSc Geomatic Engineering · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Operations in geodesy; spherical excess and legendre’s formula; shape of the earth - ellipsoid geoid, vertical deflection, selection of spheroid; co-ordinate systems - Cartesian and curvilinear, global and local, change of co-ordinate systems, Bowring’s method; computations on the spheroid, distance along a meridian, distance along a parallel; Map projections – distortion, conformal mapping, Gausian fundamental quantities, isometric co-ordinates, transverse Mercator, UTM, transverse Mercator in Ghana, line scale factor, and (t-T) correction.
- Credits
- 0
- Level
- Year Three
- Semester
- Semester One
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- GE 351 — Photogrammetry II
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- GE 361 — Remote Sensing II
- GE 362 — Principles of GIS
- GE 371 — Survey Adjustment I
- GE 372 — Survey Adjustment II
- MATH 351 — Statistics
- PL 252 — Planning the Physical Environment
- CE 260 — Soil And Rock Mechanics
- CE 461 — Engineering Economy & Entrepreneurship
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