SUR 424Monitoring Applications in Surveying
Engineering structures, natural and man-made, must be monitored periodically to ensure their safety of operation. Monitoring is a challenging task that necessitates robust surveying methods. This course discusses advanced mathematical and surveying methods for monitoring applications in surveying engineering. Monitoring using total stations, GNSS, and point clouds methods are discussed. Point cloud methods include laser scanning and photogrammetric datasets acquired from terrestrial and aerial platforms. Often in monitoring applications an integration or combination of the abovementioned datasets is necessary; therefore, this course covers the optimal integration of these datasets. The course covers multi-epoch comparisons and robust statistical analysis to distinguish between actual changes and apparent changes due to noise. Monitoring of one or more of the following structures are covered: buildings, bridges, dams, tunnels, levees, rockfalls, landslides, and coastal erosion.