Penn State Surveying Program

SUR 262
COORDINATE SYSTEMS IN MAP PROJECTIONS

 

Catalog  Data 262. COORDINATE SYSTEMS IN MAP PROJECTIONS (2). Introduction to coordinate systems used in the Lambert, Mercator, Transverse Mercator, and UTM map projections; reduction of surveying observations.
Textbook Wolf, Paul R. and Ghilani, Charles D. 2006. Elementary Surveying: An Introduction to Geomatics. 11th Ed. Prentice-Hall Publishers.

On-line Course Notes
Coordinator Charles D. Ghilani, Professor of Engineering. Surveying Engineering Program
Goals To introduce students to Map projections and their associated coordinate systems with emphasis on the State Plane (PA and NJ) and Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate systems. Course will also go into detail reduction of observations to a state plane grid.
Prerequisites by Topic Planimetric and topographic mapping procedures, traverse and related computations.
Topics
  1. Introduction
  2. Basic concepts in map projections; properties of the globe; Mercator projection; transverse Mercator projection; Lambert conformal conic projection; Gnomonic projections, etc.
  3. Forward computations in the Lambert Conformal Conic (PA)
  4. Inverse computations in the Lambert Conformal Conic (PA)
  5. Forward computation in the Transverse Mercator (NJ)
  6. Inverse computations in the Transverse Mercator (NJ)
  7. Reduction of  distances in SPCS (PA and NJ)
  8. Reduction of azimuths/angles in SPCS (PA and NJ)
  9. Traverse computations in SPCS
  10. Automated methods in SPCS
  11. The Universal Transverse Mercator Projection
  12. Exams/quizzes
  1. 1 hour
  2. 6 hours

  3. 2 hours
  4. 2 hours
  5. 2 hours
  6. 2 hours
  7. 1.5 hours
  8. 1.5 hours
  9. 4 hours
  10. 2 hours
  11. 4 hours
  12. 2 hours
Laboratories None
Computer Usage Students use WOLFPACK and spreadsheets to perform SPCS and UTM coordinate computations and observation reductions.

    

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