ABSTRACT

This popular and useful text has been completely revised and up-dated so that it forms and indipensible handbook for any student of surveying.

An additional chapter on modern developments is included and the text has also been extended to cover ordnance survey; calculation of areas; computation of true horizontal length; measurement of vertical angles; Code of Measuring Practice; curve ranging and calculations of volumes for earthworks.

chapter |21 pages

Basic Principles

chapter |37 pages

Linear measurement –fieldwork practice

chapter |20 pages

Levelling – principles and equipment

chapter |47 pages

Practical levelling and contouring

chapter |41 pages

Angular measurement

chapter |25 pages

Building surveys

chapter |41 pages

Setting-out

chapter |17 pages

Surveying by the plane table

chapter |24 pages

Modern developments