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Structural Deformation Surveying

Credit: 34 PDH Hours
Course Fee: $306.00
292 pages

How it Work!

  1. Register first and log into your account. Study and take the quiz for FREE until passed.
  2. After passing the quiz, follow the page, pay for the course and print your certificate.

Course Summary:

This course provides technical guidance for performing precise structural deformation surveys of locks, dams, and other hydraulic flood control or navigation structures. Accuracy, procedural, and quality control standards are defined for monitoring displacements in hydraulic structures. This course applies to all USACE commands having responsibility for conducting periodic inspections of completed civil works projects, as required under Periodic Inspection and Continuing Evaluation of Completed Civil Works Structures.

Learning Objective:

Upon completion of this course the participant would know:

  • What is Operating Principles
  • How to use LIDAR
  • Capabilities and Limitations of LIDAR
  • Comparisons with Existing Technologies
  • LIDAR System Components
  • Planning a LIDAR Data Collection
  • LIDAR Data Collection
  • LIDAR Data Processing
  • Data Classification of LIDAR
  • Quality Control of LIDAR Data

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Course Content

Course Author: US Army Corps of Engineers

Certificate of completion of the course

This course comes with a multiple-choice quiz. You can view the quiz and take the quiz if you are logged in your account. You can take the quiz for this online PDH course as many times until passed. The passing grade is 70% and above. After you pass the quiz simply follow the page, to pay for the course and print your certificate instantly. A copy of the certificate and receipt for this course will always be in your account.

This online PDH course can also be used as a continuing education course for the following.

Land Surveyors

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