Surveying and Mapping
This online engineering PDH course examines the photogrammetric surveying processes associated with field data collection, aerial photography, and digital mapping workflows in geospatial applications.
This course focuses on photogrammetric mapping operations, including ground control acquisition, aerial photography requirements, stereo coverage, image quality assessment, and photogrammetric feature extraction used for planimetric and topographic mapping.
In addition, this course explores aero-triangulation principles and adjustment methods, including space resection and intersection, image ray geometry, control extension (bridging), and analytical and softcopy-based processing techniques used to determine accurate ground coordinates from overlapping imagery.
So, this course covers digital terrain compilation, feature extraction, and photogrammetric data processing workflows used to generate contours, elevation models, and planimetric data products. It also emphasizes quality control procedures, error detection in imagery, adjustment validation, and the integration of ground control with aerial datasets to ensure accurate mapping outputs.
This 4 PDH online course is applicable to civil engineers, surveyors, as well as other technical professionals who are interested in learning more about land surveying.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding principles and procedures used in aerial photography and photogrammetric field data collection
- Recognizing image quality requirements, stereo coverage conditions, and aerial photo assessment criteria used in mapping projects
- Understanding ground control acquisition methods and their role in photogrammetric mapping accuracy
- Applying aero-triangulation principles, including space resection, intersection, and control extension techniques
- Recognizing softcopy and analytical photogrammetric processing methods used in digital mapping workflows
- Understanding digital terrain compilation processes, including contour generation and feature extraction
- Recognizing quality control procedures, error sources, and adjustment validation methods in photogrammetric mapping applications
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, “Surveying and Mapping”, which is based on the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Department of Transportation, “Chapter 5: Surveying and Mapping, Federal Lands Highway Project Development and Design Manual”.
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty (20) questions to earn 4 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.