Lectures and Labs Covered
Both the Tuesday and Thursday labs have finished their surveying projects as of April 14, 2009. The remaining task is to create a map of all your survey work. Your survey work has been done in State Plane coordinates around the Engineering building. You will need to create a map showing your traverses, the footprint of the engineering building, the tunnel locations, and the topographic contours at the North West side of the building. It is suggested you prepare your map using MineSight. (Some of you may be very proficient at Autocad or Carlson. You may use these packages to prepare your drawings but the notes and class room instruction do not support these packages so you will be "on your own" if you go that way).
The following slide show covers how to prepare your final project map using Minesight
An Approach to Doing Your Traverse Drawings With MineSight
The slides refer to a traverse calculator tool in Excel. This tool can be accessed with the link below.
General Traverse Calculator.xls
The slides also refer to the program Franson Coordinate Transform. This program is available on the Mining Engineering computers in the Computer Lab.
The slides also make mention of the slide show detailing how to do triangulation work with MineSight such as you did in your first lab. This presentation can be accessed with the link below.
Traverse Calculations 2009.xls
The Powerpoint presentation below show you how to begin putting your survey into MineSight. (Since you will have to turn in a drawing of your remaining survey labs there is no time like now to begin).
Entering Your Traverse Data In MineSight.ppt
On Thursday March 5, 2009 the lab will meet in the class you for training on use of GPS and the Brunton Compass. We will then go to the field and check the location of instrument stations using a Brunton Traverse and GPS (no side shots this time). In the event of unfavorable weather we will begin our underground traverse.
Triangulation With MineSight.ppt
New Tool
People have ask about the notes on putting their first lab into MineSight. The link below goes to the note presentation.
Lab 1 and Putting Your Work Into MineSight
Click on the link to get the traverse assistant spreadsheet
And a power point on using it to get information for completing your engineering building traverse
Make a Great Map of Your Engineering Building.ppt
NEW ASSIGNED HOMEWORK
Finish your lab for next week by entering your data into MineSight(R) and providing a print out of the final screen shot that shows the coordinates of the mystery 3rd point that you triangulated.
Proficiencies Completed
Labs Scheduled
Lab #1 is Triangulation (Section #2 has done - Section #1 has not)
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