This paper presents the development of program in MATLAB to calculate the horizontal deformations of dams using geodetic measurements of monitoring network points. In the beginning, the program imports input file and adjusts angle observations using least squires, then it calculates the adjusted coordinates of monitoring points in elementary and actual measurement cycles. The program calculates the horizontal displacements of monitoring points according to X, Y axis and total displacements. The program offers two aspects of output, text file and graphics. Text output file involves reports about raw and adjusted angle observations, adjusted coordinates of points, ellipse of errors, horizontal displacements. Graphic output file involves different figures like monitoring network figure, graphic of horizontal displacements and figure of ellipse errors of monitoring points.
The program was tested using geodetic measurements of monitoring network on Al-Thawra dam in Lattakia. Comparison was made between the adjusted coordinates of the monitor points obtained from the developed program with the results obtained from AutoCAD Land Desktop program.
Tishreen University Journal.
2010.
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