LEVEL 2 TRAINING COURSE.

This course involves considerable Student/Teacher interaction in order to establish the level of understanding and capability of each Student.

Session 1 Day 1
1. Review and Critique of any Student Survey Work Carried Out. Discussion of Student Problems.
2. Client Education and Contracts.
3. Preliminary look at ECDA Specifications.
4. Detailed DCVG Survey Specification. Client Education. What does the Client want.
Session 2 Day 1
5. Survey Team Composition.
6. Surveyor Selection and Education.
7. Equipment Required and Plans to Handle Field Work and Data Analysis.
8. Planning a Survey.
9. Managing your Survey Team. Multiple Teams.
Session 3 Day 1
10. Survey Set up and Methodology, Gathering Field Data. Auditing CP Hardware and ROW.
11. Discussion on Rectifiers and Temporary CP Systems, Problems and Limitations.
12. Surveying. Permits, Land Owner Co-operation, Client Co-operation.
Session 4 Day 1
13. Survey Problems. Fences, Electric Fences, Streams, Rivers, City Streets. No Test Posts.
14. Parallel Pipelines, Complex Pipeline Networks.
15. Client Reporting, Daily, Weekly, Monthly. Use of e-mail for Reporting.
16. Errors and Limitations of DCVG Surveys. Equipment Problems and Maintenance.
Session 5 Day 2
17. Review of Type of Data Collected During a Survey.
18. Distance Measurement Techniques Including GPS.
19. Data Transfer From Field to Office.
20. Error Correction and Avoidance.
21. Other Methods for Above Ground Surveys.
Session 6 Day 2
22. The CIPS Technique. Different types of CIPS Equipment and Methodology.
23. CIPS Set Up, Errors and Limitations of the Technique.
24. Combined Surveys, DCVG and CIPS. What Type of Data is Collected. ECDA Requirements.