Surveying and Geoinformatics

This course is the first in the understanding basic surveying and geoinformatics operations. It is designed as a core course for students in surveying and geoinformatics. However, it also meets the need of students in other fields, as a course that provides hands-on training in the understanding of the routines of basic surveying and geoinformatics operations. It is a practicaloriented course, the focus is to impart useful skills of basic principles of surveying and geoinformaticson the students. Topics to be covered include

This course is the first course in land administration designed primarily for students in Surveying and Geoinformatics.As a practical oriented course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their property surveying ability and prepare them for other specialised applications to be encountered at higher levels. General scope of Cadastral Surveying; Rules and Regulations governing demarcation, Field methods and office preparations for property surveys. Principles of sub-division of properties. Layout survey, Origins, Establishment and Re-establishment

This is an introductory course in Photogrammetry designed for students of Surveying and Geoinformatics, but which would also meet the requirements of students in allied fields, such as Remote Sensing and Civil Engineering, who need to understand the principles underlying the extraction of qualitative and metric information from photographs. The focus is to introduce the science of Photogrammetry to the students and to prepare them for the specialised applications to be encountered at higher levels. Topics to be covered include properties and geometry of photographs, aerial photography, photogrammetric cameras, image and ground coordinate systems, rectification of photographs, introduction to photo interpretation, mapping using photographs, and preparation of thematic maps.

This course is majorly focuses on the determination of points on the earth’s surface through celestial bodies e.g sun and stars, designed for students in surveying and geoinformatics discipline. The course will enable students to understand the nature of universe, solar system and celestial coordinate system. It will also make students to know the principles of solar and stellar observations.

This course is designed primarily for students in Surveying and Geoinformatics. As a mathematical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to increase their ability in solving mathematical problems in surveying. As various measurement in surveying contains errors in various form. In this course, procedure for minimising the effect of the error through computational techniques and application supported by sufficient formal proofs and worked examples will be provided. Each of the course topics provide a guide for the students through worked examples to demonstrate the procedure and allow student mastery of the topic. Surveying computation prepare students for other specialised applications to be encountered at higher levels. Topics to be covered includes: Basic concept and processes of surveying computations. Field and office computations. Decimal and significant figures. Computation machines, Care of computation machines. Computations of distances and angles with their various corrections. Computations of rectangular coordinates from one station to the other, Computation of bearing and distances from coordinates of known points. Clossing error Misclossure, treatment of closing errors and attainable accuracy. Area computations. Reduction of levelling field book, computation and necessary checks, adjustment of ordinary levelling and attainable accuracy.

This course is a first in computer usage designed primarily for students in Surveying and Geoinfomatics. It provides hands-on training in the use of computers for data analysis in the field of Surveying and Geoinformatics. As a practical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their computer literacy level and prepare them for other specialised applications to be encountered at higher levels. Topics to be covered includecomputer programming: flow chart, algorithm, visual BASIC, visual ForTran. Development of simple programs and routines for basic surveying operations-traversing, leveling, triangulation, photogrammetry, hydrography, etc. Development and applications of software for least squares solution surveying and geoinformatics problems such as coordinates computations, areas and volumes of earth works, production of map series.

This is the second course, a build-up, in the understanding basic surveying and geoinformatics operations. Like its prerequisite, it is designed as a core course for students in surveying and geoinformatics. However, it also meets the need of students in other fields, as a course that provides hands-on training in the understanding of the routines of basic surveying and geoinformatics operations. It is a practical oriented course; the focus is to impart useful skills of basic principles of surveying and geoinformatics on the students. Topics to be covered include

This is the second course in cadastral surveyingdesigned specifically for students in surveying and geoinformatics. As one of thecore-courses, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their knowledge in land administration. Topics to be covered include history and background of the land tenure system in Nigeria, Title registration, Various Acts governing registration and the present status of land administration in Nigeria compared to other African countries.

This course is the second course in astronomy designed primarily for students in Surveying and Geoinformatics. It is a course that provides hands-on training in the use of theodolites for sun and star observation. As a practical oriented course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their ability in star observation and computation and to also prepare them for other specialised applications to be encountered at higher levels. Topics to be covered includes:Time conversion and variation, determination of azimuth by hour angle of the sun, computation by hour angle of the sun,computational procedure on how to identify star on the field using star almanac, programming for star near elongation, determination of azimuth by hour angle of East and West stars near elongation, correction to astronomical Azimuth;correction to bearing; methods of determining astronomic azimuth. Determination of latitude by circum-meridian altitudes methods, programming forcircum-meridian observation; observation and computation for the determination of latitude and longitude independently; selection of pairsE-W stars, simultaneous determination of latitude and longitude (ASTROFIX), Laplace equation and stations, Geodetic uses of astronomical positions.

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This course is a second in computer usage designed primarily for students in Surveying and Geoinformatics. It provides hands-on training in the use of computers for data analysis in the field of Surveying and Geoinformatics. As a practical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their computer literacy level and prepare them for other specialised applications to be encountered at higher levels. Topics to be covered include:computer programming-Flow chart, Algorithm, C++, JAVA, MATLAB, etc. Development of simple programs and routines for basic surveying operations-traversing, leveling, triangulation, photogrammetry, hydrography, etc. Development and applications of software for least squares solution Surveying and Geoinformatics problems such as coordinates computations, areas and volumes of earth works, production of map series.

This course is purely on the usage of surveying instrument designed for students in surveying and Geoinformatics discipline. The course will enable students to know the working principles, construction, classification, uses and care of surveying instruments. It will also make students to know the sources of instrumental errors and accuracy attainable by each instrument.