Course Name: GPS Surveying

Course abstract

The objective of the course is to provide optimal insights into land surveying using GPS Global Positioning System. The course starts with an introduction to land surveying leading to GPS as the state of art for surveying of land. Then, different aspects of GPS systems such as GPS architecture, GPS signals, GPS receivers, GPS software has been discussed followed by GPS positioning & GPS observables.  Next, it provides GPS processing fundamentals consisting of pre processing and processing steps under different processing strategies followed by quality assessment and field procedure of GPS surveying. The course concludes with a detail demonstration of GPS field surveying followed by processing of collected data.


Course Instructor

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Prof. Jayanta Kumar Ghosh

Dr. Jayanta Kumar Ghosh is working as Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department (Geomatics Engineering Group) of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He is engaged in teaching, research and consultancy works in Geomatics engineering for more than 31 years. He is pioneer in introducing courses on GPS surveying in the UG & PG curriculum of Engineering education in India, since 1999. He has conducted many short term courses on Surveying for the building professionals as early as 2000. He has published TWO books on Surveying – Elementary Engineering Surveying and Introduction to GPS Surveying. He is member of different National and International technical associations.
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 Course Duration : Sep-Oct 2020
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 Enrollment : 20-May-2020 to 21-Sep-2020
 Exam registration : 14-Sep-2020 to 02-Nov-2020
 Exam Date : 18-Dec-2020

Enrolled

6920

Registered

443

Certificate Eligible

70

Certified Category Count

Gold

0

Silver

1

Elite

14

Successfully completed

55

Participation

307

Success

Elite

Silver

Gold




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AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75 AND FINAL SCORE >=40
BASED ON THE FINAL SCORE, Certificate criteria will be as below:
>=90 - Elite + Gold
75-89 -Elite + Silver
>=60 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment Score = Average of best 3 out of 4 assignments.
  • Final Score(Score on Certificate)= 75% of Exam Score + 25% of Assignment Score
GPS Surveying - Toppers list

KARAN VIR SINGH 76%

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED

BADATALA YASWANTH KUMAR 72%

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY ANANTAPUR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ANANTHAPURAMU

PANKAJ KUMAR DWIVEDI 69%

POWERGRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED

JEFFIN K GEORLY 69%

SHIVU NAGAPPA NAIK 66%

MALNAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 6920

Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 443

Assignment Statistics



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Final score

Score Distribution Graph - Legend

Assignment Score: Distribution of average scores garnered by students per assignment.
Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
Final Score : Distribution of the combined score of assignments and final exam, based on the score logic.