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Master in Land Surveying - Information, Fee, Syllabus.

Job Oriented Course Offline

Duration: 3 months

6 job roles 17 modules 10 softwares 10 technologies

Master in Land Surveying Information

Course Title: Master in Land Surveying and Mapping
Duration: 3 months
Training Modes: Offline/ Hybrid | Full time
Timing: 4 days a week, 3 hours a day
Timing (fast-track mode): 4 days a week, 7 hours a day

Master in Land Surveying Eligibility

  • Engineering graduate from any branch
  • Poly-Technic Diploma from any branch
  • ITI-Surveyor
  • Graduates from Geography, Geology, Environment, Computer Science, IT
  • Land Surveyors
  • Civil Engineers
  • Knowledge of computers
  • Non engineering graduate had scored more than 50%
  • Should score more than 50% in entrance exam of KIG

Master in Land Surveying Target Job Roles

Land Surveyor Total Station Surveyor DGPS Surveyor Drone Surveyor UAV / Drone Pilot Drone Operator/ Data Processor/ Surveyor

Master in Land Surveying Overview

Project like SWAMITV Yojana, DINLRMP, infrastructure development works create vast scope for drone surveyor, aerial surveyor, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Operator. In India Drone are taking over on the traditional surveying methods like total station surveying whereas knowledge of total station and GPS surveying could add benefits in understanding of hybrid surveying terminology which are employed in largest surveying project of India.

This job oriented training course will take you through GIS concepts and hand-on exercise data transfer, geo-referencing, digitization, GIS analysis. Orientation on traditional surveying technics like total station practically demonstrated. GNSS, DGNSS (GPS, DGPS) concepts with errors and RTK, PPK post processing with hands-on exercise. Drone licensing, legal structure and restriction guidelines by government of India, aerial surveying fundamental concepts and hands-on exercise on, flight planning, simulation, data downloading, image processing using different photogrammetric software's, point cloud classification, DEM editing, removing noise and much more. Manipulation of data point could data for smooth DEM generation covered in popular surveying software tools.

Covers 4 surveying instruments, AutoLevel, Total Station, DGPS/DGNSS, RTK Drone with base station. Mastering in Land Surveying & Mapping course best suits for entrepreneur start drone surveying business.

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Modules covered in Master in Land Surveying

  • Understand the technical language of GIS
  • Understand the data display and cartographical methods
  • Understand the open source and propriety GIS software vendors worldwide
  • Define and design the GIS data model such as Vector Raster TIN and Attribute
  • Define datum and Geographic projected coordinate system and their types
  • Describe what is GIS Why the data in GIS called geo-referenced GIS related domains
  • Define spatial Data Infrastucture
  • Describe application of various data models
  • Define various source for data and data acquisition terminologies in GIS
  • Define Vector Raster Network and surface analysis and their application
  • Describe the topological relationship of spatial data
  • Make use of attribute query and spatial query in complex analysis context
  • Understand source of error in data aquisition and FIX the error using GIS software tools
  • Understand the concept of the Remote Sensing and how it work
  • Understand the concepts of Aerial Photography and how it works
  • Understand the concepts of Global Positioning System and how it works
  • Describe How GIS has being utilized in decision support system and real world application
  • Define the geospatial industrial workflows
  • Understand different advance surveying technologies like Total Station, GNSS and Drone
  • Know how surveying instrument collect data and output formats
  • Prepare map using Total Station data
  • Prepare map using GNSS data
  • Migration maps from local to global coordinate systems, understand accuracy concerns
  • Migration maps from CAD to GIS
  • Prepare map using Drone data
  • Data conversion to and from various popular data format like dwg to kml, shp to kml etc.
  • Describe the QuantumGIS user interface.
  • Study a GIS-related domain to understand practical applications.
  • Understand and document the project lifecycle.
  • Perform GIS modelling for your selected domain.
  • Learn various data collection methods to choose the most accurate and efficient approach.
  • Utilize mobile GIS applications for field surveys, such as QField, SWMaps, and ArcGIS Survey123.
  • Conduct field surveys using traditional paper maps.
  • Perform data validation and reconciliation.
  • Update survey data and prepare final maps.
  • AutoCAD User Interface and Workspace: Working with commands, navigating the Cartesian workspace, opening existing drawing files, viewing work, saving files, and creating new drawings with templates.
  • Basic Drawing and Editing Commands: Drawing lines, erasing objects, utilizing polar tracking, creating rectangles and circles, managing undo/redo actions, and applying hatches. Working with advanced types such as arcs, polylines, polygons, and ellipses.
  • Drawing Information and Advanced Editing: Working with object properties, measuring tools, trimming and extending objects, stretching, creating fillets and chamfers, offsetting, and creating arrays.
  • Drawing Precision: Using running object snaps and overrides, polar tracking at specific angles, object snap tracking, utilizing snap and grid for accurate positioning, coordinate entry, and locating points with tracking.
  • Modifying Drawings: Selecting, moving, copying, rotating, scaling, and mirroring objects, as well as editing with grips.
  • Making maps: scaling and georeferencing map by different technics, digitization of maps.
  • Layer Management and Advanced Objects: Understanding layers and layer states, changing object layers.
  • Blocks and External References: Inserting, creating, and managing blocks using the Design Center, as well as attaching and modifying external references.
  • Text and Annotations: Working with annotations, adding and modifying multiline text, formatting, and creating text styles.
  • Dimensions: Understanding dimensioning concepts, adding linear, radial, and angular dimensions, and creating dimension styles.
  • Layout and Printing: Setting up printing layouts, managing viewports, printing from the Model and Layout tabs, working with multiple drawings, copying/pasting between files, and controlling draw order.
  • Describe working environment of the AutoCAD Map 3D and user interface
  • Assign, define and modify coordinate system
  • Geo-reference the scanned maps and raster images
  • Create and edit geometry feature, digitization using appropriate snap and scale
  • Understand Rubber sheeting and Drawing cleanup actions
  • Create topology and understand topological errors like sliver polygons and error markers
  • Link and manage drawing-based attribute data, create, edit object data table, attached object data
  • Import and export drawing-based data to various GIS formats like ESRI shp, sdf
  • Work with raster images, DEM
  • Work with multiple source databases
  • Use source data file queries, save and load quires
  • Use attribute and located quires
  • Explain considerations for sharing map and source data
  • Get familiar with GEP interface
  • Add existing layers, GIS, CAD and overlay it
  • Add/edit point, line and polygon layers, digitize and export it as kml/kmz format
  • Measure length and area, view historical data of your AOI
  • Draw elevation profile for alignment
  • Download high resolution imagery
  • Prepare and print map
  • Understand AutoCAD Civil 3D working environment, tool-space, work-space and features
  • Create and modify Civil 3D templates, styles, settings
  • Understand and explain survey Tool-space settings
  • Describe survey database, field book and total station instrument setting
  • Analyze traverse using different traversing rules like least squares and traverse adjustment
  • Manage survey figures setting and understand field to finish procedure
  • Manage description keys and automated symbol placement
  • Create and modify point label styles, point group, create points on gird, import and export points
  • Create surface from points, contours, TIN
  • Describe surface creation, editing, viewing in 3D, label styles
  • Calculate volumes by various methods
  • Understand, create, edit alignments, it properties and label styles
  • Draw, edit l-section/profiles and cross from surface
  • Create & use appropriate template, create template, create project and setup project working environment to get started with ArcGIS Pro.
  • Inspect and assign coordinate system to layer, dataset, and map frame, re-projecting the data
  • Navigate maps & scene, link views, add data to project, create bookmark, find features, explore GIS data, convert 2D maps to 3D scene, import mxd, work with different selection method
  • Working with geo-spatial data: Web GIS Online layers, base maps, XY point data, satellite images, drone images, DEM, point cloud, CAD datasets
  • Design and create geodatabase, feature class, feature dataset, table and relationship class
  • Design and apply different types of geodatabase domains and subtypes, schema management
  • Perform data engineering tasks, geo-reference raster images, evaluate whether results of geo-referencing error are acceptable and RMS error, Image-to-Image & Point-to-Image method
  • Perform digitizing, editing in geo-database and other files formats, make use appropriate snapping, QA/QC of data
  • Create and apply different types of Symbology and annotation
  • Perform complex geo-processing tools and understand various vector, raster analysis
  • Using overly tools like buffer, clip, intersect, union, erase for problem solving, creating heat maps
  • Extract statistics and summarizing the tables for reporting, using field calculators helpers
  • Data conversion: CAD to GIS, GIS to KML, Geo-Json and vice-versa
  • Sharing GIS data offline, create project packages, publishing on ArcGIS online, PDF, JPG formats, story maps
  • Set up a page layout, add the legend, layout elements to include, and appropriate reference scale. Use table frame, graticule grid, reports in map
  • Understand Drones, History of Drone/UAS/UAVs, drone assembly, Safety, payload, battery life, specs for good results
  • Explain application of drone for Surveying & Mapping like Construction, Agricultural, Engineering Land Survey and Architecture uses
  • Know regulations of DGCA and Drone license, registration in India
  • Perform surveying site flight planning with different app like Drone, Deploy, Pix4D capture, GS RTK App
  • Executive surveying flight with safety
  • Know to aerial Photogrammetry, Aerial Triangulation and how it effect accuracy
  • Post-process data with different app like Drone, Deploy, Pix4D
  • Consideration for post-processing RTK & PPK flight data
  • Analyse output data, contouring, DSM and Volumetric Measurement Calculation
  • Produce traditional topographic map as like Total Station
  • Know the kind of map/outcome can produce form drone surveying
  • Understand fundamentals of GNSS RTK & PPK Surveying, Map accuracy: Relative vs. Absolute Accuracy Survey-Grade Accuracy, Factors that Improve Map Accuracy, Techniques of controlling errors
  • Employ GNSS RTK & PPK technologies in Drone Surveying
  • Consideration for hardware selections, payload, comparison of surveying drone and its accuracy
  • Consideration, planning strategies of GCP Check points in vertical and horizontal accuracies
  • Planning and estimation of drone surveying job
  • Use D-RTK 2 Mobile Station in Drone RTK Surveying and mapping,
  • Explain what is NTRIP (Network Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol), NTRIP for configuring your GNSS base station and utilize own custom RTK network
  • End to End surveying workflow: RTK Flight & PPK Flight. Field and office procedures with practical exercise on field
  • Using Survey of India CORS network data for PPK processing
  • Know general requirement in various government and private drone land surveying tenders
  • Introduction to Photogrammetry
  • Coordinate system and data conversion
  • Processing Step 1 Initial Processing, matching calibration, quality report, GCP consideration
  • Processing Step 2 Point Cloud & Mesh
  • Processing Step 3 DSM, Orthomosaic and Index
  • Editing the Point Cloud, Volume Calculations, Scale Constraints and Orthomosaic editing
  • Visualize and manipulate Pix4D output in other surveying software’s tools
  • Coordinate system and data conversion
  • Processing Step 1 Initial Processing, matching calibration, quality report, GCP consideration
  • Processing Step 2 Point Cloud & Mesh
  • Processing Step 3 DSM, Orthomosaic and Index
  • Editing the Point Cloud, Volume Calculations, Scale Constraints and Orthomosaic editing
  • Visualize and manipulate Pix4D output in other surveying software’s tools
  • Work with Microstation/Spatix tools
  • Describe concepts of LiDAR data, how it works
  • Enumerate various applications of LiDAR surveying
  • Describe the procedures of LiDAR data collection
  • Understand various LiDAR sensors available in Indian market with its specification
  • Describe characteristics of photogrammetric vs LiDAR point cloud data
  • Visualise the point cloud in different interactive ways
  • Describe accuracies and errors in LiDAR data output products like DSM, DTM
  • Use feature interpretation and extraction technics
  • Understand common problems in classifying ground, restoration methods, noise removal methods. Usages of macros for automation
  • Classify point cloud using automatic and manual methods
  • Identify, Classify and extraction feature like building, powerline, trees, water bodies, vegetation classification, road, bridge, culvert etc
  • Create the surface model and edit the surface
  • Create digital elevation, digital terrain models
  • Create topographical contour using ground point cloud
  • Define the advantage and disadvantage of Total Station surveying
  • Define the vertical and horizontal angle measurement mechanism of Total Station instrument.
  • Understand Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM) principles
  • Define Rectangular vs Polar coordinate system measurements
  • Define How Total Station works, need of TS orientation.
  • Define open and close traversing terminology using TS
  • Define application of survey using TS
  • Perform topographical survey (plain table and contour survey)
  • Understand the stakeout concepts
  • Perform Stake out / Demarcation of Building Layouts / Plot Layouts / Roads / Alignments
  • Understand the various road survey application and terminologies.
  • Perform road surveys
  • Transfer or Establish Benchmarks
  • Measure remote distance and elevation using special function of TS
  • Solve trigonometric problems using COGO function on the field / Site
  • Perform onsite instrument calibration
  • Calculate 2D, 3D area on the field / Site
  • Calculate surface volume on the field / Site
  • Understand the survey work estimation factors
  • Define the procedure for download and upload data to TS
  • Define the TS data formats
  • Produce simple survey map using AutoCAD.
  • Explain what is GNSS and how it works?
  • Basics of surveying and positioning, Introduction to GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, NavIC)
  • Errors in GPS (atmospheric, satellite, multipath) and how to avoid those errors
  • Concept of DGPS and its advantages over conventional GPS, Applications in surveying, mapping, and infrastructure
  • Understand how D-GNSS calculate the position? and error in D-GNSS/DGPS positioning
  • Answer why D-GNSS/DGPS post processing is required to improve surveying accuracy
  • Explain expects in positioning using Coordinate System, Map Projection, Geoid and PDOP concepts, Data logging and file formats (RINEX, proprietary formats)
  • Describe D-GNSS/DGPS surveying applications in Land Surveying and mapping
  • Perform data post processing, baseline processing with independent brand software, Survey of India post processing services, AUSPOS free GNSS online processing services
  • Understand Survey of India CORS network, processing outcome and their accuracy, NTRIP configuration (IP, port, mount point)
  • Perform Control Surveying and GCP Collection for Drone surveying using Static surveying method
  • Perform topographic survey using RTK, PPK and Stop & Go surveying method
  • Perform Stake-out for alignments, land parcels and others
  • Share GNSS surveying data in various format like csv, dwg, kml, shp
  • Understand survey grade GNSS receiver specification, most popular
  • GNSS brands available in India and their cost
  • Understand Scope of Work, its estimation by going through some sample real time tenders.
  • Introduction to Levelling & AutoLevl: Importance of levelling in surveying and construction, Types of levels: Dumpy Level, AutoLevel, Digital Level (brief overview), Parts of AutoLevel instrument and accessories (tripod, staff, bubble, focusing knob, etc.), Principle of operation of AutoLevel
  • Setting Up the AutoLevel: Site selection and tripod setup, Centering, levelling, and focusing, Checking circular and tubular bubble
  • Levelling Methods & Observations: Temporary adjustments of AutoLevel, Staff holding and reading techniques,
  • Field procedures: Simple Levelling, Check Levelling, Booking field notes (BS, IS, FS, RL), Common errors and precautions in fieldwork
  • Practical Field Exercise: Setting up the AutoLevel in field, Taking Back Sight (BS), Intermediate Sight (IS), and Fore Sight (FS), Recording readings in field book, Calculating Reduced Levels (Rise & Fall method), Cross-checking results with ground elevations
  • Data Processing & Closing: Reduction of levels and preparation of level book, Arithmetic check of levelling, Applications in real projects (road, building foundation, drainage, etc.)
  • Q&A and discussion

Softwares taught in Master in Land Surveying

  1. ArcGIS Pro
  2. GPS/GNSS
  3. AutoCAD
  4. AutoCAD Civil 3D
  5. Google Earth Pro
  6. Pix4D
  7. Drone Deploy
  8. Agisoft
  9. Microostation/Spatix
  10. Terra Tools

Technologies included in Master in Land Surveying

  1. GIS
  2. GPS/GNSS
  3. Levelling
  4. Total Station Surveying
  5. DGPS Surveying
  6. RTK/PPK Drone Surveying
  7. Hybrid Surveying
  8. Remote Sensing
  9. Photogrammetry
  10. LiDAR

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