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Review of photo-coordinates determination. Collinearity and coplanarity principles, bundle and block adjustments. Processes and tasks involved in digital photogrammetry. Generic digital photogrammetry environment and integration with GIS and CAD systems. Software & hardware requirements for digital photogrammetry and digital photogrammetric work stations. Advantages and characteristics of digital images. Spatial, radiometric and spectral resolutions, geometric accuracy, digitization, sampling, quantization of grey levels and noise. Data acquisition for digital photogrammetry using digital cameras, scanners. Data compression, image processing, image enhancement and restoration techniques and image resampling.

Review of least squares application in photogrammetry. Collinearity and Coplanarity concepts and least squares methods in relative orientation. Strip, bundle and block adjustments. Systematic effects in photogrammetry. Image matching, DTM generation, digital orthophoto creation. Digital line map production, digital monoplotting. Digital photogrammetry using appropriate software. Principles and methods of photogrammetric mapping using Drone technology. Computer applications in photogrammetric projects.

This course is a hands-on approach to photography, and recipients are introduced to the following aspects of photography. In contrast, the recipient is expected to engage not more than three specializations from any of the following Documentary photography, Portrait Photography, Fashion Photography, Advertising and Still Life Photography, Photojournalism, Wedding Photography, Glamour and Nude Photography, Copying, Macro Photography, and Photo microscopy or videography and short film narratives and editing.

The earth and its gravity field. Gravitation, gravity and potential. Geoidal undulation and deflections of the vertical, geo potential numbers, orthometric, dynamic and normal heights. Size and shape of the earth, geoid as figure of the earth and other approximations. Gravity observations, absolute and relative gravity values, gravity reduction and gravity anomalies. Inverse problem in physical geodesy. Gravimetric, astro-geodetic, astro-gravimetric and satellite altimetry methods of determining the figure of the earth.

Purpose and legal basis of planning legislation in Nigeria; General introduction to the legal process of legislation, contract, adjudication and the concept of justice; A review of the evolution of law relating to land and urban and regional planning in Nigeria; A critical review of some urban and regional planning laws an acts, Urban Renewal Act, Anti-Pollution Act; Recent trends in planning legislation; Land tenure and land policy; A review of the misuse of fundamental rights under the Nigeria constitution relating to land, land development. The Land Use Act, its provisions, limitations and implications for planning, building by-laws and their applications to regulate urban growth and direct development; Legal aspect of review and approval process of land use plans. Planning laws as a mechanism for solving urban problems of health, congestion and pollution. Introduction to the elements and principles of administration, political structure and bureaucracy. The structure of federal, State and Local Governments; Their planning scope and functions; Functions, power structures and resources of Administration of inter-regional and intra-regional planning. Management and decision making at various levels and within parastatals and line ministries; the administration of implementation of Urban Development plans; the legal provisions, the administrative structure and financing.

Model making techniques, tools and materials, use and care of tools, workshop practices. Procedure and guide for models making, Preparation of three-dimensional planning models and map models such as residential areas, neighbourhood centres, community centres, hospitals, primary and secondary schools.

Components of Urban and Regional Land use. Relationships between planning standard and city size, culture, transport, Building Technology. Standards for various land use including those of specialized areas, destitute centres and old people’s homes, barracks, mixed land use, campuses. Concepts, objective of planning, planning process, (zoning, types of zoning/mixed land use, floating, conditional/contractual and phase zoning). Analysis and classification of urban land uses. Coding, slum and urban renewal; Techniques for identifying slums and degraded areas plus new town development. Principles and development.

To introduce the students to the urban foci of intensive activities, their functioning, location, physical structure and special problems, students will conduct relevant surveys in areas such as land use, circulation, parking, conflict points, spatial differentiation, utilities and the general environment. Existing problems like congestion, incompatible uses, encroachment, are to be emphasized and recommendations for improvement presented. In addition, a study of planning models types such as iconic, analogue, symbolic, descriptive, predictive and other related currently in existence must be examined. Each studio design must be based on a specific planning concept and accompanied by a technical report and modelling.

Residential Community/Neighbourhood Design. Neighbourhood Design and Housing Layout. Concept of planned and integrated development of residential areas. Spatial differentiation into distinct units of neighbourhood, and the physical, social and functional components of the neighbourhood units, its structure and density. Design of housing layout and plot subdivision as a detailed aspect of neighbourhood planning based on relevant environmental factors (topography and vegetation). Preparation of a detailed layout of a would-be site, including quantitative projections for anticipated population densities, site occupancy, two- and three-dimensional forms.

Traffic and Transportation Planning and Design. Studio project in traffic and transportation planning in a small town or a part of a city. Applications of principles and analytical techniques of urban traffic planning. Traffic surveys; 0-D surveys, cordon counts, parking surveys and accident surveys. Analysis and presentation of traffic data; forecasting future traffic; transportation networks planning and traffic routing; road geometric design, carry a design to solve an identified traffic problem in the society.