SURVEY PRACTICAL-internal attachment

  The 3rd face of the internal attachment commenced well with vigor and high expectations by the students to conduct their Survey practicals.The first week was leveling using theodolites.The students were to level one(1) kilometer of loose bound roads around the DKUT and carry out the analysis and produce final measurements of the roads and their respective diagrammatically represented outfits.All the groups were to start at the same point(common Datum) but take different routes.There were a total of six groups conducting the task.The first day kicked off by marking the control points along routes taken by each group.The control points were to be used to the next day to carry out measurements on the roads.During measurements,the staffs were located at intervals of ten meters and the staff readings recorded.Between two control points computations were conducted to ensure error-free results and if bugs were detected,measurements between the two control points were repeated.These activities were conducted in three days and on the fourth day the students embarked on measuring and leveling the sewer lines around the campus.These marked the week one activities in survey.
Problems encountered
1.Very harsh climatically facilitated conditions(sun-burns to many students)
2.Time wastage-leading to repeating the tasks
3.incorrect measurements-due to mirage because of the sun(bright light)

Internal attachment 2013,2nd year.

    23^rd January marked the begginning of the internal attachment for the second years in GEGIS  and GIS.The internal attachment is one of the most valued session during the course period.This session entails equiping the students with the required skills to enable them compete better in the industry after  or during their course in campus.Its a compulsory session as each student is evaluated at the end of the attachment  and the marks/grades attained used to compute one’s final grade at the end of the course.

       The attachment period kicked off well with high expectations that at the end of it all,every student will have a chance to carry out tasks in various fields such as GIS,Cartography,Remote Sensing and Survey on their own.The program has so far been good as parts of the attachment have been completed.These fields include the GIS and Cartography.These were carried out in the first weeks of the program using the ArcGIS 10.0 software.These sectors include the data collection,analysis,manipulation,storage,editing and printing out the maps where required.Due to time constraints,the students used a ready imagery to carry out the tasks.This was mainly carried out using the ArcMap 10.0 software.All the processes and tasks were carried out in trying to come up with the final product.Such processes included the digitization processses,error correction etc.Weekly reports are prepared to showcase students’ activities during the program to the supervisors.

The second part of the attachment was to start off the Remote Sensing acitivities.Remote sensing is the art of acquiring data/information about a feature/object in another location without having to be in contact with it.ERDAS 9.1 and ERDAS 2010 are the software in use for these activities.Many processes are involved in carrying out the Remote Sensing activities.such processes involve the mosaicing,subsetting etc.

This is the much that the students have done so far during this internal attachment.More to come.thanks all