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Calculate Areas, Contours, and Volumes For Survey Purposes: Level 3 Credits 8 Purpose

This document describes a unit standard for calculating areas, contours, and volumes for survey purposes. The standard is at level 3 and worth 8 credits. It is intended for survey technicians and involves calculating areas using geometrical principles for polygons and irregular shapes, volumes using various methods like end areas and cross sections, and land contours from spot levels and for stockpiles. Providers must be accredited by NZQA to assess against the standard and engage with the moderation system.

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Calculate Areas, Contours, and Volumes For Survey Purposes: Level 3 Credits 8 Purpose

This document describes a unit standard for calculating areas, contours, and volumes for survey purposes. The standard is at level 3 and worth 8 credits. It is intended for survey technicians and involves calculating areas using geometrical principles for polygons and irregular shapes, volumes using various methods like end areas and cross sections, and land contours from spot levels and for stockpiles. Providers must be accredited by NZQA to assess against the standard and engage with the moderation system.

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Calculate areas, contours, and volumes for survey purposes


Level

Credits

Purpose

This unit standard is for people working, or who intend to work, in the
surveying profession as a survey technician.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: calculate areas for survey
purposes; calculate volumes for survey purposes; and calculate contours for
survey purposes.

Subfield

Surveying

Domain

Survey Practice

Status

Registered

Status date

25 February 2008

Date version published

25 February 2008

Planned review date

31 December 2012

Entry information

Recommended: Unit 5251, Choose and apply


trigonometric methods to solve problems involving
lengths and angles, or demonstrate equivalent
knowledge and skills.

Accreditation

Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and


industry.

Standard setting body (SSB)

Infrastructure ITO

Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference

0101

This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.


Special notes
1

Evidence is required of calculating survey data using mathematical principles and


showing working. Computer software may not be used in achievement of credit for
this unit standard.

A reference for this unit standard is Price, WF, and Uren, J, Surveying for Engineers
(UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), available at http://www.fishpond.co.nz.

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Elements and performance criteria


Element 1
Calculate areas for survey purposes.
Performance criteria
1.1

Areas incorporating circular boundaries are calculated using geometrical


principles.
Range

area a traffic roundabout, one other.

1.2

The area of a polygon is calculated using the double longitude method.

1.3

Areas of arbitrary shape are determined using a combination of calculations and


a planimeter.
Range

calculations multiple polygons, trapezoids;


one planimeter of linear, polar, analogue, digital.

Element 2
Calculate volumes for survey purposes.
Range

calculations for - an earthwork cut and fill, a stockpile, a pond.

Performance criteria
2.1

Volumes are calculated using a variety of methods appropriate to the item.


Range

evidence is required of the following methods end areas, prisms,


cross sections, estimating, geometrical shapes.

Element 3
Calculate contours for survey purposes.
Performance criteria
3.1

Land contours are calculated from reduced levels involving no less than one
hundred spot levels.

3.2

Contours are calculated for a stockpile of at least fifty cubic metres.

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Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The AMAP
also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to
develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and
assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Infrastructure ITO [email protected] if you wish to suggest changes to
the content of this unit standard.

New Zealand Qualifications Authority

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