CET 215 - Survey III/GPS

3 credit hours

Fundamentals of GPS, along with field labs using GPS RTK surveying methods will be the emphasis in the first half of this course. The Sioux Falls and Southeast Tech’s Base’s will be used on projects including RTK-topo, RTK-Infill, RTK-offset & sun/shadow offset, RTK alignment/point stake-out, RTK-DTM stake-out, and RTK continuous point collection. The last half of this course will be dedicated to GPS Static surveying. Trimble Business Center is used along with Fast Static procedures to compute the precise locations of points on campus. The Sioux Falls Base and local HARN points are used to establish the Lat/Long/Height coordinates of these campus points. Prerequisites: CET 120