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Effective Term:
Summer 2014 through Fall 2016

Course Number:
LAT 223
Course Title:
Site Surveying and Analysis
Credit Hours:
3
Lecture Hours:
20
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
30

Course Description

Application of basic surveying techniques to landscape sites. Topographic maps and land divisions. Techniques for measuring, recording, and interpreting site information needed in the design and construction of landscapes. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

Students will learn through outdoor labs the use of level/transits and laser levels to a degree suitable for landscape measurements. Drafting experience or coursework is helpful, but not required.

Intended Outcomes for the course

· Understand the concepts of accuracy and precision and how to apply them to a given project’s requirements.
· Accurately use surveying equipment to obtain horizontal and vertical measurements to understand the slope of a site, and draft a topographical map.
· Use computation to measure, record and interpret site information to draft a site plan for use in design and/or construction of the landscape.
· Read and interpret grading plans, using concepts of cut and fill. Set grade stakes in the field.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

  • Written mid-term and final exams.
  • Performance competencies
  • Landscape Site Plan

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

  • Land Division Systems
  • Topographic Maps
  • Measurement Units
  • Surveying Geometry
  • Surveying Trigonometry
  • Surveying Equipment
  • Measuring Horizontal Distances
  • Measuring Vertical Difference
  • Calculate Slope and Set Grade Stakes
  • Measuring Horizontal Angles and Property Lines
  • Types of Surveys
  • Landscape Grading Plans; Cut and Fill
  • Landscape Site Plans and Site Analyses
  • GIS/GPS

Related Instruction

Computation
Hours: 54

Outcomes:

· Accurately use surveying equipment to obtain horizontal and vertical measurements to understand the slope of a site, and draft a topographical map.
· Use computation to measure, record and interpret site information to draft a site plan for use in design and/or construction of the landscape.
 

Use computation to accurately measure, record, and interpret site information to develop and draft a site plan.
 

Activities:

Content (Activities, Skills, Concepts, etc.): provide details or specifics
· Linear calculations and conversions of feet-inches-fractions of an inch/decimal feet
· Geometry and surveying applications
· Trigonometry and surveying applications
· Horizontal and vertical measuring with surveying applications
· Slope ratio, gradient and percent calculations
· Field note computations, Note Check and Allowable Error
· Contour interpolation and graphing of contour lines
· Angle calculations and conversions of degrees-minutes-seconds/decimal degrees
· Angle conversions of azimuths/bearings