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A study of legal principles and court decisions relating to modification of upland land boundaries in Washington State. Covers sources of title and the adverse possession, parole agreement, common grantor, equitable estoppel and the recognition and acquiescence doctrines. Delivered in an on-line format. Prerequisite: Requires basic computer skills or CIS 123.
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A study of easements, Rights of Way and vacations in Washington State and how they affect landowners' rights. Delivered in an on-line format. Prerequisite: Requires basic computer skills or CIS 123.
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A study of legal principles and court decisions relating to riparian land boundaries in Washington State. Covers riparian rights, navigability, tide and shorelands, accretion, evulsion, erosion and reliction, meander lines, and tidal definitions. Delivered in an on-line format. Prerequisite: Requires basic computer skills or CIS 123.
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A study of ethical and legal principles relating to the practice of land surveying. Covers professional and ethical obligations of land surveyors, also: implied and expressed agreements, discovery rule, negligence, privity of contract, standards of care. Delivered in an on-line format. Prerequisite: Requires basic computer skills or CIS 123.
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History and development of horizontal geopositioning and accuracy standards for advanced GIS and surveying applications. Covers shape of the earth, ellipsoid models, horizontal datums, and horizontal geopositioning techniques, spherical excess and data reductions. Delivered in an on-line format. Prerequisite: mATh 101. Requires basic computer skills or CIS 123.
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History and development of vertical geopositioning and accuracy standards for advanced GIS and surveying applications. Covers geoid modeling and the interrelationship of the three major surfaces encountered in geodetic surveys: topographic, geoidal and ellipsoidal. Also, vertical datums, and vertical geopositioning techniques. Delivered in an on-line format. Prerequisite: mATh 101. Requires basic computer skills or CIS 123.
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A study of the use and construction of the state plane coordinate systems for advanced GIS and surveying applications. Includes map projections, computation of state plane coordinates from field data, retrieval of control data from the National Geodetic Survey's database, use of geodetic software utilities for state plane system-to-geographic system coordinate conversions, computation and application of convergence, Laplace, scale and elevation factors. Delivered in an on-line format. Prerequisite: 101. SuRV 220 and SURV 221 is a recommended prerequisite. Requires basic computer skills or CIS 123.
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5.00 Credits
Use of advanced surveying-engineering design software for the production of surveying and engineering plans and drawings. Covers drafting standards, plot scales and plotting, attributes, coordinate geometry, digital terrain modeling, importing of raster images. Preparation of plan, profile and cross-sectional views, survey recording act drawings, topographic maps and planimetric maps incorporating digital aerial photo imagery. Prerequisite: CAD 150 or instructor's permission.
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Introduction to and application of geometric road design principles: horizontal curves, vertical curves and grades, superelevations, typical sections and earthwork computations. Includes construction and slope staking. Students develop a personal software library for typical design computations. Prerequisite: SuRV 225 or instructor's permission.
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5.00 Credits
Application of advanced techniques for the solution of surveying problems. Includes solar and stellar observations for determination of the true and geodetic meridians, advanced coordinate geometry, route surveying and layout techniques, cadastral surveying, project estimating and research. Prerequisite: SuRV 120.
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