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Coastal Environmental Assessment and Monitoring - MSCI3201
a Sydney beach

 
Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Equivalent: MSCI6200
 
 
Excluded: MSCI6300
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Course MSCI6200 has been recoded MSCI3201

The courses covers: general principles of surveying; optical and electronic methods of distance and elevation measuring; coastal position fixing; coordinate systems and their application to coastal mapping; map projections; long and short term monitoring of coastal changes; tides and their measurement.

Note: Field work of up to 4 days is a compulsory part of this course. Students will incur personal costs.

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