FIELD ASTRONOMY

FIELD ASTRONOMY equips students with knowledge on the position of celestial

bodies such as moon, sun, stars and planets with reference to earth. This study is

important to land surveyors in field works such as determining the azimuth in land

boundaries, checking angles in long traverse and determining geodetic positions or

geographic points on earth.

LAND MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT

LAND MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT provides students with the exposure and knowledge related to various Act regarding land management and development in Malaysia.

GEODESY 1

GEODESY 1 introduces students to the field related to geodesy and provides

knowledge of the reference surface in geodesy, ellipsoidal geometry

characteristics, datum in geodesy, geodesy coordinate system and computation

on an ellipsoid. This course also emphasize on calculation on geodetic

coordinate.