Excerpt
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Dedication
PART ONE: SURVEYING
Chapter one: History of surveying
Surveying today, what surveying is?
Major Elements of survey, Branches of surveying Units of Measurements, Purposes of surveying
Chapter two: Chain/Tape surveying
Meaning, Equipments used, The Fieldwork of chain surveying Obstacles in chain survey, Booking, Plotting
Errors in chain surveying, Activity
Chapter three: Prismatic Compass Survey
Meaning, Merits and Demerits
Methods used, Bearing, Intersection, Resection
Types of Prismatic Compass, Open traverse, Closed traverse. Application of traversing, Reduction of Error in compass
Chapter Four: Plane tabling
Meaning, Equipment used, Merits and Demerits, Alidade.
Chapter five: Leveling technique
Meaning/Definition, Purposes, Equipments, Terminologies used Methods, Rise and fall, Height of Collimation
Activity, Types of levels, Basic theory, Application Errors in leveling
PART TWO: FIELD WORK
Charter one: Fieldwork
Meaning, Importance, Objectives
Organization of fieldwork/Project work Report writing, Activity
- Quote paper
- Tutor Haruni Machumu (Author), 2011, Understanding Practical Geography: Map Work - Surveying - Field Work - Research, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/181033
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