1997 QUT Handbook

Courses: BN30
Prerequisites: Completion of years 1 and 2
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PSB303 ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL
MEASUREMENT 1
Surveying measurements and their assessment, Propagation of
Variances, Pre-analysis of survey tasks, Least Squares adjustment
methods for various functional and stochastic models.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: MAB494, MAB893
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB304 ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL
MEASUREMENT 2
Generalised Least Squares, linearised observation equations
approach to more extensive horizontal and 3-D networks including
GPS data; Reliability of solutions and design of networks;
Detection and treatment of systematic and gross errors.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB303
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB306 CARTOGRAPHY 1
Freehand Drawing: field sketching; base materials: drawing
instruments for survey drafting; 3-D representation: relief
shading, contour interpolation; precision plotting: earth’s coordinate
system; construction of map projections both manual
and computer assisted; the cadastre: an introduction to its history
and implications for society if the cadastre is not maintained;
specifications for cadastral plan preparation: cadastral
plan registering authorities requirements, simple subdivision
plans; plan reproduction techniques: electrostatic diazo.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB307 CARTOGRAPHY 2
Preparation of cadastral plans for survey actions over multiple
amalgamations; building units and group titles; background
tenures, mining tenures; detail survey plans: long and cross
sections for engineering projects; digital data acquisition: types
of digitisers and scanners; raster/vector conversions; digitising
techniques; scanning problems; output devices; printers,
plotters, scanner plotters, image setters.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB306
Credit Points: 10 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB308 CARTOGRAPHY 3
Reprographics: graphic arts photography; film characteristics;
emulsion properties; printing methods: offset lithography;
gravure letterpress; requirements of originals; type and
typesetting layout design; paper technology: ink technology,
colour separation techniques and procedures for map production;
half-tone photography for relief shading; desktop publishing:
software capability and limitations.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB307
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB309 CARTOGRAPHY 4
Map Design: map compilation, generalisation; compilation
methods; data sources and evaluation; map design elements:
composition; organisation; visual hierarchy; gestalt theory:
thematic mapping; qualitative and quantitative pre-processing
of spatial data; statistical methods; data classification; dot
map; choropleth map isarithmic mapping cartograms; colour
and visual perception; colour systems; Munsell, Ostwald, CIE,
colour in cartographic design.
Courses: IF52, IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB308
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB310 GEODESY 1
The earth’s gravity field, geopotential surfaces, geoid, undulations,
deflection of vertical, level surfaces, normal,
orthomorphic, dynamic heights; heighting systems and AHD;
satellite geodesy, the GPS system, configuration, availability,
reliability, ephemerides, error sources and error budgets; GPS
receivers and software; GPS applications in point positioning,
differential and kinematic mode; non-geodetic applications.
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Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB327
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB311 GEODESY 2
Further work on spherical and ellipsoidal harmonics; Gauss’
and Green’s formulae, Legvandie’s functions, Stokes’ formula;
determination of geoid and best fitting spheroids; satellite
datum, transformation to geodetic datum; local and geocentric
geodetic datum, mutual transformations; geodetic and
satellite time systems; variations in gravity, gravity measurement,
gravity and height anomalies; ocean and earth tides;
other geodetic space techniques; VLB1, LLR, INS, Doppler;
the incorporation of these data sets into classical terrestrial
data sets; geophysical aspects of geodesy; rotation of the earth,
length of day, polar motion, UT1 and UT2; work of the International
Earth Rotation Service; the Conventional Terrestrial
System.
Courses: PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB310
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB315 LAND ADMINISTRATION 1
Introduction to the nature of politics, political concepts and
culture, and public policy; constitutional development in terms
of its English origins, evolution of colonial self-government,
federalism, and the Australian Constitution with particular
reference to the effects on laws relating to land; the roles of
parliament, executive government, the judiciary, the public
service, local government; the exercise of political influence
through pressure groups, political parties, the mass media, and
issues of freedom of information; the purpose and aims of
resource policy and the role of property rights in resource
management.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB316 LAND ADMINISTRATION 2
An historical study of the development of land policy in Australia,
highlighting the conflicts that have arisen from differing
philosophies of land use and ownership; introduction to
the elements of the law; the sources of the law, legal systems,
the judicial hierarchy, rules of precedents, law reports, where
to find the law; the basic principles and objectives of the Torrens
system of land titling; concepts of government guarantee
and indefeasibility; concepts of Estate, Tenure, Interests; the
operation of the Torrens system in Queensland; Certificates
of Title, easements, caveats, mortgages, dealings, transfers,
lease, etc.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB317 LAND ADMINISTRATION 3
The legal aspects of re-instatement of boundaries; case law
associated with re-instatement; statutory requirements which
relate to the zoning and development of land; land and surveying
requirements of the following Acts: The Dividing
Fences Act, The Land Sales Act, The Soil Conservation Act,
The Water Resources Act, The Beach protection Act, The Integrated
Resort Development Act, The Acquisition of Land
Act, The Harbours Act, The Canals Act, etc.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: PSB316, PSB348
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB318 LAND ADMINISTRATION 4
An Introduction to Rural and Urban Sociology; defining sociology,
the ecological approach, urban social structure, social
patterns in urban society, deviance and urban living, rural
social patterns and problems. Social Aspects of Land Administration’
the impact of industrialisation land urbanisation on
rural societies, the country/city dichotomy; social problems
of new town and large scale suburban subdivision and urban
redevelopment.
Courses: PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB319 LAND ADMINISTRATION 5
The role of organisation, learning as a function of time, ten-