Module Outline (Lecture Themes)
LECTURE/PRACTICAL LIST

• Traversing (1). Field observations. Control and detail survey.

• DAY FIELDCOURSE.

• Traversing (2). Laboratory aspects. Computations. Plotting.

• Fieldcourse follow-up.

• Aerial survey methods. The alternatives.

• Aerial Photogrammetry. The process.

• Analogue plotters. General.

• Analogue plotters. The Kern PG2.

• Digital data acquisition.

• Aerial survey applications in Earth Sciences.

• G.P.S. methods.

Module Aims
This more specialist surveying module aims to build on the basic techniques learnt in the second year fieldwork module (GG21920), introducing students to more sophisticated ground survey instrumentation and also to selected laboratory techniques in aerial survey. The module commences with a four day fieldcourse where a small ground survey scheme at a scale of 1:2000 is completed and also ground control for photogrammetric mapping measured. The latter will be utilised in a number of laboratory practicals later in the course.

Module objectives / Learning outcomes
By the completion of this module, students will have acquired specific surveying skills which can be employed, firstly, in studies in other systematic parts of Geography, or which may, secondly, form a basis for further training in surveying and a career in the mapping industry.