Short Courses

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Practical short courses in Land Surveying & Geo-Information Technology

The Available Short Courses

Surveying & Setting out – Levelling

Training duration 14 days
Training fees Ghs 3000
Foreign trainees fees $ 700

This course is designed for young and new Surveyors, engineers, and personnel in the surveying and construction industry who have fair knowledge of the principles and practical application of leveling.

Course Details

This course is aimed at students with little or no previous experience in using leveling equipment.

The course includes the observing, calculation and checking of levelling runs using the ‘Height of Collimation’ method of booking as well as checking the equipment.

Field practical exercises are used to back up the theory learned in the classroom.

An automatic optical level, manually booked is used for all exercises.

A basic knowledge of the use of calculators for addition/subtraction, multiplication/division and square roots prior to coming on the course would be an advantage.

Topics to Cover

Introduction to Health and Safety (when using a level & staff)
Background to leveling and leveling theory
Reading the staff and booking the readings
Sources of error in leveling and acceptable closures
Two peg test and adjustment of the instrument
Use of Intermediate sights & Inverted readings
Practical field leveling exercise practical covering topo detail leveling
Using Benchmark
Establishing a datum
Settling out levels for profiles
Rise and fall booking
Use of digital levels

At the end of the course students receive a certificate of attendance/completion skills.

Surveying & Setting out –Total Stations

Training duration 21 days
Training fees Ghs 4000
Foreign trainees fees $ 800

This course is designed for young and new Surveyors, engineers and personnel in the surveying and construction industry who have fair knowledge in how to use modern total stations and its application to setting out and topographical survey.

Course Details

The course covers best practice in the use of total stations for both basic detail surveying and setting out and is applicable to candidates working in either the surveying or the construction industries. Practical exercises back up the theory learned in the classroom. The Total Station will be used to measure angles and distances, also to store measurements and co-ordinates to be downloaded to a computer for mapping, and checking against required measurements. The course is taught with a Manual (Non Robotic) instrument, to give students confidence in accurate pointing. Hand calculations are kept to a minimum, but a knowledge of mathematics and the use of the scientific calculator prior to coming on the course would be an advantage.

Topics to Cover

Introduction to Health & Safety (Using a total station)
Horizontal and vertical angles Total station
Total station – distance measurement theory
Total station – setting up and using the instrument and Targe
Practical field exercise familiarising with the Total Station
Menu system – creating a job – entering co-ordinates
Slope, horizontal distances and Height Difference Reduction
Prism constants and atmospheric settings and Non Prism reflector less measurements
Introduction to co-ordinates and how to stablish a new station from a base l
Using known stations, and back sights, for orientation,
Observing, downloading and plotting of field surveyed points – Field exercise
Resection and free-station Programs
Menu system – setting out
Field practice setting out by co-ordinates
Menu system – overview of other functions (such as reference line, remote height, tie distance and area.)

At the end of the course students receive a certificate of attendance/completion.

GNSS FOR SURVEYING AND SETTING OUT

Training duration 21 days
Training fees Ghs 5000
Foreign trainees fees $ 1000

This course covers detailed use of GNSS Survey equipment for land survey and setting out. Practical exercises back up by the theory learned in the classroom.

The GNSS equipment will be used to obtain coordinates of point as in static surveying and Real Time Kinematic applications. Basically, the GNSS equipment will be used for surveying for cadastral and topographical data, as well as for transferring surveying data to the field as in setting out of in construction. There will be detailed use of data loggers and softwares.