Basics
Land surveying and its importance
Surveyors play an integral role in land development, from the planning and design of land subdivisions through to…
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Basics
CLASSIFICATION OF SURVEYING
Generally, surveying is divided into two major categories: plane and geodetic surveying. LANE SURVEYING PLANE SURVEYING is a…
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Dogs – a surveyor’s best friend ?
The US government recently spent 19 billion dollars on researching how to better detect bombs, at the end…
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UAV-based LiDAR: the future of surveying
A research team from the University of New South Wales and Linke & Linke Surveys has developed a…
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Measuring Principles
Although there are many EDM instruments available, there are basically only two methods of measurement employed, namely the…
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Field surveying
Introduction This chapter is designed to introduce you to the various surveying techniques used to obtain the original…
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Distance Adjustment
To eliminate or minimize the systematic errors of taping, it is necessary to adjust each measured bay to…
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Distance measurement
Distance is one of the fundamental measurements in surveying. Although frequently measured as a spatial distance (sloping distance)…
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EQUIPMENT
The equipment used in the levelling process comprises optical levels and graduated staffs. Basically, the optical level consists…
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Bench mark (BM)
In order to make OD accessible to all users throughout the country, a series of permanent marks were…
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