Applied geodesy

 7.5 ECTS credits
Instruction is in the form of lectures, mandatory field measuring exercises and data analysis.

Areas included are:
  • managing instruments (setting-up, batch measuring)
  • different measuring methods, plane and height
  • positioning buildings
  • traffick line marking
  • cartography measurement
  • planning, marking and measuring base-lines
  • coordinate estimation
  • processing measurement data
  • measurement rules
  • theory of error,
  • classification of measuring errors
  • error propagation, estimated according to the least square method
  • quality assurance

Progressive specialisation: G1F (has less than 60 credits in first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level: Undergraduate level
Admission requirements: The course Geodesy (NGGA24), 7.5 ECTS cr or Introduction to Engineering Surveying (NGGA26), 15 ECTS cr, or equivalent.
Selection: Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.

This course is included in the following programme

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Campus, 50% Options
  • Start Autumn 2025
  • Mode of study Campus
  • Language Swedish and English
  • Course code NGGB64
  • Application code KAU-46761
  • Study pace 50% (Day)
  • Study period week 36–45
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