Applied Surveying

Code:

EG4010

Acronym:

EG4010

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Surveying Engineering

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Plannings
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Geospatial Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
M:EGEO	19	Official Study Plan	1	-	6	42	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The main objectives are to provide the students with:
a) additional knowledge concerning the concepts of Surveying, promoting its application through solving typical exercises and fieldwork;
b) the basic knowledge on the theory of observational errors and least-squares adjustment;
c) the necessary knowledge concerning field survey procedures.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is expected that the students:
- gain practical experience and develop skills through the completion of fieldwork;
- know how to use electronic/optical and GNSS RTK equipment;
- know how to plan and conduct field sessions to address topographic projects, collect and record the necessary field information and solve both analytically and graphically the proposed problems.
- know how to undertake the adjustment of the redundant observations acquired in the fieldwork;

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Review of the basic concepts of Surveying.
2. Adjustment of Observations.
3. Analytical and graphical computation of coordinates.
4. Topographic Survey Procedures with EDM.
5. Principles of and errors in Electronic Distance Measurements.
6. Fieldwork:
- Total station Survey with traversing;
- Intersection;
- Resection;
- Spirit Levelling.

Mandatory literature

J. A. Gonçalves, S. Madeira, J. Sousa,; Topografia. Conceitos e Aplicações., Lidel, 2008
Kahmen Heribert; Surveying. ISBN: 3-11-008303-5
Van Sickle Jan Jan; 1001 solved surveying fundamentals problems. ISBN: 1-888577-12-6
Bannister A.; Surveying. ISBN: 0-582-07688-9

Complementary Bibliography

F. Bell; Surveying and setting out procedures, Avebury, 1993
J. Casaca, J Matos, M Baio; Topografia Geral, Lidel, 2000
Kavanagh Barry F.; Surveying. ISBN: 0-8359-7405-7

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes are mainly based on PowerPoint presentations and available on the site of the course.
In the tutorials, an extensive set of exercises covering all course sections, aiming at the application and consolidation of the knowledge acquired in the theoretical classes, is solved. Half of these classes are reserved for conducting field works. Exercises and the fieldwork computations are solved using specific software for numeric computation and data analysis (e.g., MATLAB, SURFER, EXCEL).

Software

Matlab
Microsoft Excel

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Surveying

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	0,00
Prova oral	10,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	21,00
Trabalho de campo	21,00
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	20,00
Estudo autónomo	100,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance in the tutorial classes is compulsory. 75% of the field works are mandatory. Both the report describing the fieldwork and its oral presentation are mandatory.

Calculation formula of final grade

Assessment is based on the final written exam (FE), on the fieldwork (FW, 20%), the fieldwork report (R, 20%) and its oral presentation (OP, 10%).
Final grade (FG) formula: FG =0.5*EF + 0.2*FW + 0.2*R + 0.1*OP.
A grade ≥8 (0-20 scale) in each of the components is required.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students must achieve at least 75% of the proposed fieldwork. The proposed topographic projects are:
- Total station Survey with traversing;
- Intersection;
- Resection;
- Spirit Levelling.

Classification improvement

The students are allowed, during the academic year or the following one, to improve the final grade through the improvement of the final written exam grade only.