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- Effective Term:
- Winter 2017 through Fall 2017
- 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
Introduces basic surveying techniques to landscape sites. Includes topographic maps and land divisions. Covers 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
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- 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 to 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