Cartography and Hydrographic
Survey - MSC 256

Announcements & Assignments

Week 2

  • Week 2 lectures & video are posted under Student Resources. Read or watch before week 2 class.
  • Review
  • HYPACK Basics
    • Exercise - Creating a Project & Setting Geodesy
    • Exercise - Loading Background Files
    • Control Settings in HYPACK
  • IHO Manual
    • Introduction & Chapter 1

Week 3

  • HYPACK
    • Hardware
    • Editors

Week 4

  • Test
  • Continue HYPACK Editors

Week 5

  • HYPACK Survey

Week 6-7

  • Field trips - Cape Fear River Single Beam Survey with HYPACK
  • Review for Mid Terms
  • Useful HYPACK videos (See bottom of "Student Resources" page)
  • HYPACK website training videos

Week 8 - Mid Terms -

Week 9

  • Field trips - Cape Fear River MultiBeam Survey with HYSWEEP
    • Power Points under Student Resources

Week 10 - SPRING BREAK!

Week 11

  • What is an ROV
  • ROV lab

Week 12/13/14

  • Dredging
  • Side Scan Sonar (review from MSC 152)
  • SeaPerch ROV Construction Lab
  • Training Cruises

Week 15/16 - Senior Cruises

 

previous announcements

Course Description

This course covers basic surveying techniques as they apply to marine research. Topics covered are the understanding of basic equipment and instrumentation used for hydrographic surveying and applying this equipment to software used in surveying around the world today. Upon completion, students should be able to use Hypack survey software, be familiar with various equipment and software used in hydrographic surveying and able to apply it in the field for surveys on board a variety of vessels.

 

  • Course Hours Per Week: Class 1, Lab 3.
  • Semester Hours Credit: 2.
  • Prerequisite - CIS 111 and MSC 152
  • Corequisite - MSC 254