This 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.
Key Features
- Easy to read, user-friendly approach. Gives students the clearest presentation available, supporting easy-to-read text with clear illustrations and realistic examples.
- Brings together coverage of all the subjects students need to master, from traditional surveying to cutting edge technologies. Covers everything from traditional highway geometrics, and construction surveying to state-of-the-art GIS, satellite imaging, and other innovations.
- Helps students clearly understand the connections between theory and real-world applications. Reflects the authors’ extensive real-world experience, illuminating the ways modern surveying is actually performed in a wide variety of environments.
- Focuses on student success throughout. Provides proven pedagogical tools including chapter questions, problems, worked examples, and many current weblinks for further exploration.
- Gives students easy access to all the terminology and definitions they need. Contains a complete and accessible glossary: a feature rarely included in surveying texts.
- Provides reference material students can use throughout their careers. Includes appendices covering random errors, trigonometric definitions and identities, weblinks, typical field projects, a color photo gallery, and more.
- Simplifies conversion between English and metric units, preparing students to work with either, or both. Provides both English and Metric units in all examples and problems.
New to This Edition
- Improved! Reorganized to reflect modern surveying practice—including changes associated with rapid recent advances in technological instrumentation, applications, and techniques.
- Improved! Streamlined to teach more rapidly—including the unification of optical theodolites, total stations, and total station applications in one chapter; and the integration of all engineering work into another single chapter.
- New! Broader coverage of allied topics—including aerial, space and ground imaging; remote sensing; geographic information systems (GIS); and many new real-world engineering surveying applications.
- New! Supported by a new Instructor’s Manual—including solutions to all text problems, sample tests and exams, typical subject outlines, selected instrument procedures, and PowerPoint presentations for all topics.
- Revised! Rewritten chapter on land surveys—includes many new techniques and extensive recent real-world experience.
- Updated! Contains new, updated, and refreshed questions—at the end of every chapter.
- Updated! Includes new web references—in many chapters.
- New! Draws on the extensive expertise of new co-author Tim B. Mastin (California Polytechnical State University)—reflecting Mastin’s many years of experience in academics, land surveying, and engineering surveying
Contents
PART I. SURVEYING PRINCIPLES
- Chapter 1. Basics of Surveying
- Chapter 2. Leveling
- Chapter 3. Distance Measurement
- Chapter 4. Angles and Directions
- Chapter 5. Total Stations and Theodolites
- Chapter 6. Traverse Surveys and Computations
- Chapter 7. Satellite Positioning Systems
- Chapter 8. Topographic Surveying and Mapping
- Chapter 9. Geographic Information Systems
- Chapter 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
Book Details
- Hardcover: 592 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 9 edition (c2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0137009402
- ISBN-13: 978-0137009404
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
- List Price: $167.40