Surveying - Equipments and Basic Procedures

This book is primarily intended for the Undergraduates and Post Graduate students in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Construction Engineering. Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is called a land surveyor.The book deals with surveying instruments and field procedures, as well as the measurement of test data. Moreover, the individual experiments introduced with its definition, concept and objective.Chain surveying, Compass surveying, Plane table surveying, Levelling, Theodolite surveying, Plotting methods and Total stations for surveying on the field are covered in this book, with a single chapter devoted to each.

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Subash Thanappan est professeur associé au département de génie civil de l'université d'Ambo, en Éthiopie, depuis 2011. Il a travaillé à l'Institut de technologie de l'Érythrée à Asmara, en Érythrée, de 2007 à 2011. Il a publié un certain nombre d'articles de recherche et est membre de l'IAHS, de l'IAENG et de l'IFERP.