Surveying: Principles and Applications

by Barry Kavanagh, Tom Mastin

Overview

SURVEYING: PRINCIPLES & APPLICATIONS, 9/e is the clearest, easiest to understand, and most useful introduction to surveying as it is practiced today. It brings together expert coverage of surveying principles, remote sensing and other new advances in technological instrumentation, and modern applications for everything from mapping to engineering. Designed for maximum simplicity, it also covers sophisticated topics typically discussed in advanced surveying courses. This edition has been reorganized and streamlined to align tightly with current surveying practice, and to teach more rapidly and efficiently. It adds broader and more valuable coverage of aerial, space and ground imaging, GIS, land surveying, and other key topics. An extensive set of appendices makes it a useful reference for students entering the workplace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780137009404
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	12/29/2012
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

PART I. SURVEYING PRINCIPLES

1. Basics of Surveying

2. Leveling

3. Distance Measurement

4. Angles and Directions

5. Total Stations and Theodolites

6. Traverse Surveys and Computations

7. Satellite Positioning Systems

8. Topographic Surveying and Mapping

9. Geographic Information Systems

10. Control Surveys

PART II. REMOTE SENSING

11. Satellite Imagery

12. Airborne Imagery

PART III. SURVEYING APPLICATIONS

13. Engineering Surveys

14. Land Surveys

PART IV. APPENDICES

Appendix A. Random Errors

Appendix B. Trigonometric Definitions and Identities

Appendix C. Glossary

Appendix D. Answers to Selected Chapter Problems

Appendix E. Internet Websites

Appendix F. Examples of Current Geomatics Technology

Appendix G. Typical Field Projects

Appendix H. Early Surveying

Index

Field Note Index