growing demand for graduates with a
thorough understanding of surveying
science technics and spatial data
structures and with a training in computer
science.
Proper use of land which is a basic
resource in Zambia and other African
countries can not be achieved if it is not
backed by adequate planning and proper
land policy. To make any effective plan
for the proper land use, up to date
information system is needed. Therefore,
an involvement of properly educated
surveyors in planning and implementation
of such systems is required.
3. UNDERGRADUATE SERVICE COURSES, SHORT
COURSES,WORK SHOPS,POST GRADUATE COURSES
The reformed surveying course has been
also implemented to the other
undergraduate programmes at UNZA, such as
Civil Engineering, Mining, Agriculture,
Agriculture Engineering, Geology.
This course, which is also offered by the
Department of Surveying, comprises two
parts. The first part is common for all
programmes and includes fundamentals of
surveying methods and equipment. The
second part is different for various
programmes and includes principles of
engineering/ mining surveys,
photogrammetry and mapping, remote
sensing, land use planning and information
systems.
In the past few years the Department of
Surveying has been also required to
arrange different short refresh courses
and work shops for various institutions in
Zambia. These courses and workshops have
covered the areas of advanced surveying,
computer assisted cartography,
computerization of cadastral surveys,
applications of photogrammetry and remote
sensing, LIS/GIS principles. Also there is
a very close cooperation in respect to
share the views on the scientific and
practical aspects of various professional
problems, carrying out the common research
pilot projects within the students final
year projects and consultancy activity and
arranging the seminars.The requests are
growing up from different specialists for
establishing the postgraduate courses in
fields of information systems and remote
sensing for different applications. The
Department of Surveying will start such
postgraduate courses in the coming years
if the staff situation is improved.
4. THE INTEGRATED COMPUTER SYSTEM IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYING, UNZA.
The demands of the governmental and
private institutions in Zambia regarding
the changes in long and short term
training of surveyors and the growing
interest of other specialists to be train
in surveying, photogrammetry, remote
sensing and information systems, had
impact on a decision to modernize the
equipment in the Department of Surveying
at UNZA. During the last three years, with
the support of SIDA (Sweden) and CICAT
(the Netherlands)
the integrated computer system has been
set up in the Department to solve simple
surveying and mapping tasks as well as
more complex problems as a creation of
information systems with data captured
from graphic or photographic maps, three
dimensional photogrammetric models, field
observations and remote sensing sources.
The system has been designed for a large
variety of applications and combines the
components available presently in the
Department. In general, the system
includes three workstations; surveying/
geodesy/mapping, remote
sensing/GIS/LIS, and
photogrammetric.The list of all components
is shown in table 3 and the overview of
this system is presented in figure 2.
TABLE 3 Components of Integrated Computer System
GROUP OF COMPONENTS
COMPONENTS
Network of computers with MS DOS Operating System comprises;
COMPUTERS - one IBM PC PS2/M80 (314 MB HD)
- three IBM compatible PC 486- Gateway 2000 ( 650 MB and 200 MB HD)
- three IBM PC PS2/M30 (20 MB HD)
- one IBM XT (20 MB HD)
- two portable computers (20 MB HD)
- AO CALCOMP 9100 digitizer
- total station GEODIMETER 422 LR
INPUT - Wild A8 stereoplotter with computer interface
PERIPHERALS - one 500 MB tape streamer to read the remote sensing tapes and store
data
- three high resolution colour monitors (different size)
OUTPUT - HP large size plotter (Al)
PERIPHERALS - HP colour small size plotter (A3)
laser printer, dot matrix printers
