1997 QUT Handbook

Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB329
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB331 LAND SURVEYING 7
The need for control in the use of resources; property rights
as a method of resource control. Creating and maintaining
knowledge of property rights; including issues concerned
with parcel identifiers, land tenure, land boundaries, land
subdivision, land registration, changing rights through statutory
changes, attitudes and responses of the public; evidence
of property rights, evolution from customary land tenures to
land registration systems, and factors leading to breakdown
of systems. Effects of technological change on land use,
evolving property rights and obligations, and on information
technology on land use controls; The Mabo case
Courses: PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: PSB316, PSB323, PSB328
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB332 LAND SURVEYING 8
Procedures of the various departments including but not confined
to, the Department of Natural Resources, Resources Industries;
Plan registration, Road closure, Resumption surveys,
Conversion of Mining tenure to freehold, Conversion of pastoral
tenures to freehold, Excision for and of reserves of various
kinds. The undertaking of a cadastral survey of moderate
complexity in accordance with Surveyors’ Board’s requirements
for registration as a surveyor.
Courses: PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB331
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB333 MAP PROJECTIONS
Mapping terms and definitions; the mapping problem. Distortion,
linear, angular and areal. Scale. Conditions for
orthogonality, conformality, equivalence and equidistance.
Selection of suitable projections. Principles for deriving projections
on tangent and secant plane, conic and cylindrical
surfaces in skew, normal or transverse aspects. Spherical and
spheroidal projections. Conformal projections. The UTM
system. Computations on the AMG. Line scale factor
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: MAB494
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB334 PHOTOGRAMMETRY 1
Foundations of photogrammetry: history, products, applications;
types of cameras: camera calibration; aerial photography; camera
requirements: film types; factors affecting the photographic
mission; planning and executing the photogrammetric project;
basic elements of the photogrammetric mapping process; planning
and execution of the project; introduction to basic mathematics
of photogrammetry.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB335 PHOTOGRAMMETRY 2
Basic mathematics of photogrammetry: fundamental rotation
matrices; space resection of a single photograph; formation
of a stereo model; aerotriangulation: introduction; historical
development; methods; instrumentation; block triangulation
with independent models: three-dimensional transformation
of unit models; separation of planimetric and height computations;
corrections for errors, accuracy of block adjustment:
planimetry; height.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: PSB303, PSB334
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB336 PHOTOGRAMMETRY 3
Principles of Plotting with a Stereoplotter: differential rectification
of photographs data acquisition: accuracy assessment;
close range photogrammetry: digital mapping and its relationship
to geographic information systems and remote sensing.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: PSB303, PSB334
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB337 PHOTOGRAMMETRY 4
Introduction to digital photogrammetry: image sampling and
812
resampling; digital image correlation: multi-point and featurebased
matching; digital geometric processing of images.
Courses: PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB335, PSB336
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB338 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Definitions and characteristics of a profession: Code of Ethics
of ISA. Professionalism and statutory regulations. Current
issues in professionalism. Professional organisations.
Autonomous professional interest groups, local and international.
Professional heritage. The surveyor and statutory authorities.
Registration of surveyors. The surveyor vis-a-vis
government departments. The surveyors professional relationships.
Employer-employee relationship; Quality assurance and
CPD. Business planning. Financial planning and budgeting.
Use of computers in a business. Developing the business plan.
Legal aspects of practice. Contract – formation. Torts. Business
organisations. Employment: employer’s and employee’s
rights and duties. Intellectual property.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB339 PROJECT
Each student is to research and report on a topic, germane to
surveying and mapping, that will demonstrate a capacity to
satisfy the objectives of this subject. A 20-25 minute seminar
will be given by each student in both semesters on the topic of
the project, or other approved subject.
Courses: PS47, PS48
Prerequisites: Completion of not less than 240 course credit
points
Credit Points: 16 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ PSB340 REMOTE SENSING 1
History and Principles of Remote Sensing: introduction; definitions;
principles; Electromagnetic Radiation: introduction; the
electromagnetic spectrum; interaction with the atmosphere; interaction
with surfaces; Types of Imagery; Image Interpretation:
elements of image interpretation; image interpretation strategies;
preparation for interpretation; Satellite Systems: history;
current platforms. Image Resolution: target variables; system
variables; operating conditions; Elementary Image Classification:
informational classes and spectral classes; unsupervised
classification; supervised classification; other classifications;
Applications in the Earth Sciences; Land Use and Land Cover;
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PHB172
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB341 REMOTE SENSING 2
Review of aspects from PSB340 Remote Sensing 1; Image
Interpretation: activities of image interpretation; elements of
image interpretation; techniques of image interpretation; visual
requirements of image interpretation; Image Processing and
Image Classification; Cartographic Presentation of Remote
Sensing Data: fundamentals of cartographic presentation; approaches
to cartographic presentation; rectification; Applications
Environment; Terrain and Minerals: assessment and
evaluation. Forest Lands: inventory and assessment; Water
Resources Assessment; The Marine Environment. Weather and
Climate: measurement and analysis; Crops and Soils; Urban
Environments: inventory and analysis; Regional Analysis.
Courses: PS47, PS48 Prerequisites: PSB340
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PSB342 SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE 1
Introduction: what is spatial information science; maps and
map analysis; First Look At Spatial Information Science:
Raster SIS; Vector SIS; digital elevation models; Spatial Data
Bases: spatial objects and data base models; relationships
among spatial objects; data base concepts; Data Acquisition:
sampling; data input; coordinate systems; map projections;
transformations; georeferencing; Using Spatial Information
Systems: spatial analysis; output; graphic output design issues;
modes of user/SIS interaction.
Courses: IF54, PS47, PS48
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week