Surveying as a foundation discipline in Engineering, Environmental Studies and planning, provides training in the spatial location and depiction of earth’s features, providing in the process the environmental information necessary for designs and setting out engineering works, spatial planning, location of infrastructure, exploration and exploitation of natural resources and land administration and management. The surveyor is not only a professional and academic Geoscientist, but one also who must have a good grasp of physics, mathematics and able to work in a multi-disciplinary team comprising the engineers, Environmental scientists, builders, Analysts and planners.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the programme are as follows:-

a.          To provide a bridge programme for the holders of the Higher National Diploma (HND) and Bachelors’ degree in surveying or related disciplines which will qualify them for Enrolment in Masters Degree courses in surveying and related fields.

b.          To produce sound surveyors, research project analysts and project developers in the broad areas of surveying and mapping towards the realization of goals of Surveyors Council of Nigeria (SURCON), International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) and others.

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SCOPE OF PROGRAMME

The programme leads to the award of the Post-Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Surveying covering the following areas of surveying: Cadastral surveys, Geoinformatics, Engineering/ Mining Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Remote sensing, Hydrography and inland water surveys.

Duration of the Programme

The Post-Graduate Diploma (PGD) Programme takes a minimum of 12 months for full time and a minimum of 24 months for part-time students. To qualify for the diploma, a student must pass at least a total of 36 units of courses as 18 units for each of the two semesters. The mode of study will be by  course work and by project writing.

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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

i.                    Holders of Higher National Diploma (HND) at upper-credit level or lower-credit with not less than five years of experience in surveying, Photogrammetry, and cartography or the equivalent from any recognized institution of higher learning.

ii.                   OR a Bachelor of Science degree in surveying or related disciplines with not less than 3rd class honours.

In addition the candidate may be required to pass a qualifying examination set by the Department.

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Job and Career Prospects.

Successful PGD students are adequately equipped for careers in State and Federal Ministries of Works and Housing; Lands and Surveys, and Parastatals such as Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), Oil companies such as Shell, NNPC, AGIP, Mobil, Chevron, ELF etc., including private consulting firms and construction companies.

In addition, successful PGD students are adequately equipped to be self-employed providing surveying services for individuals, communities, industries and Government.

Facilities

Classrooms, studio and seminar room, three computers with printers, projector, mobile screen, photocopying machine, departmental library, offices, generator, postgraduate room etc.

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course outline              course description

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COURSE OUTLINE For POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN SURVEYING

FIRST SEMESTER: CORE COURSES

CODE	COURSE TITLE	Unit
SV 601	Hydrographic Surveying I	2
SV 603	Further Cadastral Surveying	2
SV 605	Further Geodesy I	2
SV 607	Applied Mathematical Methods	2
SV 609	Further Aerial Surveying & Remote sensing	2
SV 611	Geoinformatics I	2
SV 697	Surveying Project I	2
	Electives	4
	Total	18

ELECTIVES

CODE	COURSE TITLE	Unit
SV 615	Technology and Urban Development	2
SV 619	Digital Mapping I	2
PL 605	Landscape Planning & Environmental Mgt	2
SV 623	Further Map Projection	2

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Minimum electives to be taken is four (4) Units.

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SECOND SEMESTER: CORE COURSES

CODE	COURSE TITLE	Unit
SV 602	Hydrographic Surveying II	2
SV 606	Further Geodesy  II	2
SV 610	Further Aerial Surveying and Remote Sensing II	2
SV 612	Geoinformatics II	2
SV 618	Adjustment Computation	2
SV 698	Surveying Project II	4
	Electives	4
	Total	18

ELECTIVES

CODE	COURSE TITLE	Unit
SV 620	Further Technical communication	2
SV 622	Digital Mapping II	2
SV 624	Navigation	2

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Minimum electives to be taken is four (4) Units.

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Course Description

SV 601            HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING I  (2 UNITS)

Controls for inland waters and off shore, position fixing: Mechanical (linear), Optical and Electronic (EPF) techniques.  Introduction to satellite navigation: planning and data analysis of soundings.  Fundamentals of under-water acoustics; echo sounder; swath sounders.  Reference level and mean sea level (MSL).  Introduction to geophysical survey. Gauges, tides and tidal observations, chart datum and datum transfer.  Discharge measurements for inland waters and estuaries, sediment transports.

SV 602   HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING II  (2 UNITS)

Sounding, wave propagation, Matthew’s charts, vertical beam, sonar instruments, operations, and calibration.  Coastal Engineering, Siltation and erosion, coastal zone management, improvement and rectification of channels and fairways, channel marking, Harbour delineation, shipping and Harbour laws. Offshore position fixing. Effects of wind and wave on seabed. Oceanographic equipment.

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SV 603    FURTHER CADASTRAL SURVEYING  (2 UNITS)

Cadastre: Multipurpose cadastre, concepts and benefits. Concept of land information management.  Data acquisition, processing, analysis, storage and retrieval.  Data storage media computerized data systems.  Detailed surveying and mapping cost benefit analysis of land information system. The evolution of the Nigerian Surveying laws and regulations.  Cap 191, of 1958 laws. Cap 97. Survey coordination Decree of 1970 etc.  Decree 44 of 1989.  NIS and SURCON as regulatory bodies. Code of Ethics of NIS. Costing of surveying projects

SV 605    FURTHER GEODESY I (2 UNITS)

Geodetic triangulation, Trilateration and Traverse: Planning, Observation, Computations and adjustments on the reference ellipsoid.  Geodetic height systems Geodetic coordinates.  Geodetic coordinate transformations.   The geometric and dynamic theories of artificial earth satellites (GPS).  Introduction to very long Baseline interferometry (VLBI). Geodetic potentials of simple figures: Spheres, disks, cylinders, cones and ellipsoid.  Spherical harmonic solution of potential theory of solid body like the earth. Boundary value problems.  Application to Geoid determination.

SV 606       FURTHER GEODESY  II (2 UNITS)

Objects of physical geodesy.  Gravity field of the earth, Spherical Harmonies representation.  Gravity observations and reduction.  The level ellipsoid and its gravity potential. Normal gravity, Anomalous gravity, potential and Geoid determination, Telluroid. Least squares prediction. Approximations: matrix partitioning. Further spherical harmonics. Fourier and integral transforms. Applications to physical geodesy.

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SV607 APPLIED MATHEMATICAL METHODS (2 UNITS)

Vectors: concepts, properties and application to surveying including line and surface integrals, curl and divergence, Gauss integrals, stokes and Green.  The complex variable theory and application to conformal mapping. Matrix: Generalized inverse, Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues. Matrix partitioning; Direct and indirect methods of solving linear equations. Least square method of adjustment: Condition and parametric.  Least square method with weight constraints.  Least square adjustment of Level Network, Triangulation Network, Traverse Network, Trilateration Network etc.

SV 609 FURTHER  AERIAL SURVEYING AND REMOTE SENSING I (2UNITS)

Stereoplotters: Descriptions, classifications based on projection systems.  Methods of inner, relative and absolute orientation using analogue stereo plotters.  Map compilation and updating. Model deformation studies.  Systematic corrections in Photogrammetric analogue aero triangulation. Study of satellite images. Sensor platforms Geometry of artificial satellite orbits. GPS Positioning, Satellite imagery pattern recognition. Fundamentals function classifier concepts.

SV 610 FURTHER AERIAL SURVEYING AND REMOTE SENSING II ( 2 UNITS)

Analytical stereo plotters coordinate measurements and refinements.  Mono and stereo comparators.  Analytical initialization, relative and absolute orientation. Introduction to digital Photogrammetry. Derivation of co linearity and co planarity equations. Advanced Sensor platforms. Digital image processing.  Processing of Remote sensing data. Image enhancement techniques.  Advanced image transforms.  Filtering. Applications

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SV 611 GEOINFORMATICS I  ( 2 UNITS)

Elements of computer graphics, Digital representation of graphic objects.  Raster and vector graphics.  Hardware and software graphic systems.  Orthogonal and perspective coordinate transformation data structures for 2D, 3D graphics.  Map analysis. GIS soft wares.

SV 612 GEOINFORAMTICS II ( 2 UNITS)

Introduction to Geographic information systems.  Data collection, and input, storage, retrieval, processing and analysis.  Data visualization and representation.  Database systems DBASE management systems.  Structured Query language (SQL).  Design and setting up of a geographic information system.

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SV 618 FURTHER ADJUSTMENT COMPUTATION (2 UNITS)

Further least square adjustment method: Linearization of functions.  Formation and solution to normal equations.  Gauss-Doolittle method, Banachiewcz and cholesky methods.  Error ellipse/ellipsoid and statistical testing.  Application to surveying.

SV 619 DIGITAL MAPPING I (2 UNITS)

Coordinate transformation. Computer graphics for software and hardware systems.  Data structures.  Map analysis and 2D and 3D graphics.

SV 620 FURTHER TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION (2 UNITS)

Word choice including technical words.  Written communication special application:- instructions, internal memoranda, notices, forms and questionnaires, essays, projects and papers, meetings etc.

SV 622 DIGITAL MAPPING II (2 UNITS)

Map Projection:- Organization of the mapping process.  Line design and appreciation plotting of graticules and grids.  Cartographic materials and techniques.  Line image, style, tint and tone.  Process of photography.  Digital mapping advanced mapping data methods, techniques, hardware, and software.  Data editing.  Digital mapping systems. Data collections form maps, plans, charts and stereo models.  Data smoothing and generalization. 

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SV 623 FURTHER MAP PROJECTION (2 UNITS)

Review of historical development of maps.  Brief review of geometry of ellipsoid. Gaussian fundamental quantities.  Theory of distortion.  Tissot’s indicatrix. Various projection systems and processes. Generalized mapping equations.  General theory of projection from ellipsoid to sphere and to plane.  UTM and the Nigerian system.

SV 624 NAVIGATION  (2 UNITS)

Principles and applications of the celestial, satellites, aircraft, and inertial navigation to the real time determination of positions of stationary and moving vessels and objects.  The concept of inertial navigation and its relation to inertial surveying system (ISS).

SV 697 SURVEYING PROJECT I  (2 UNITS)

Formulation  and writing of a formal research proposal including definition of research problems, statements of objectives and working hypothesis, proposed methodology and literature reviews. Presentation and defence of the research proposal at Departmental seminar. 

SV 698 SURVEYING PROJECT II (4 UNITS)

Based on the original research. Demonstration of a true grasp of the concepts and analytical techniques in the specialist area. Dissertation to be defended before a panel of examiners.