Introduction to Field Data Collection

Field  Data  Collection  for  the  Civil  Engineer  is  the  first  basic  professional  activity  of  the  Civil Engineering Surveyor. It is the fieldwork of Surveying, but with a flexible approach suitable to the collection of field data (detail, features) that would be needed by the Civil Engineer. This course is a theoretic introduction and covers the background to field data collection.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Objectives:

•      The purpose of this course is to introduce Surveying in its general concept
•       It shows the distinction between Civil Engineering  Surveying and other types of Surveying, particularly Land Surveying with which it is often mistaken.
•  It presents  the idea of field data collection  for the Civil Engineer  (inclusive)  and how this differs from data collection in other forms of surveying (sampling)
•       Field data collection is then expanded into its practical elements and constraints