ENVS 269 - Wildlands Skills: Map, Compass, & Gps

2 Credit(s)

Students will develop skills in map reading, use of a magnetic compass, altimeters, and Global Position System (GPS) receivers. Students will learn to describe a position by use of Latitude and Longitude, Universal Transverse Mercator, and U.S. Public Land Survey grid systems. Students will apply learned GPS skills to execute traverses of land parcels and determine the location of private and public land ownerships. Students will develop skills in CD-Rom map programs and the downloading of GPS receiver waypoints and traverses onto CD-Rom maps. Learned skills will be practiced on local field trips. $40 Course Fee.

Prerequisite(s): equivalent of M 095 or higher; or c/i.