Previous ed.: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

• Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Engineering surveying; 1.2 Survey institutions and organisations; Chapter 2 Levelling; 2.1 Heights, datums and bench marks; 2.2 Levelling equipment; 2.3 Field procedure for levelling; 2.4 Calculating reduced levels; 2.5 Precision of levelling; 2.6 Sources of error in levelling; 2.7 Other levelling methods; Chapter 3 Angle measurement; 3.1 Definition of horizontal and vertical angles; 3.2 Accuracy of angle measurement; 3.3 Electronic theodolites; 3.4 Optical theodolites; 3.5 Measuring and setting out angles.
• 3.6 Sources of error when measuring and setting out anglesChapter 4 Distance measurement: taping; 4.1 Measurements and methods; 4.2 Equipment and fieldwork for taping; 4.3 Systematic errors in taping; 4.4 Precision and applications of taping; 4.5 Steel taping worked examples; Chapter 5 Total stations; 5.1 Integrated total stations; 5.2 Electromagnetic distance measurement; 5.3 Instrumentation; 5.4 Electronic data recording and processing; 5.5 Sources of error for total stations; 5.6 Measuring heights (reduced levels) with total stations; Chapter 6 Traversing and coordinate calculations.
• 6.1 Control surveys6.2 Rectangular and polar coordinates; 6.3 Coordinate transformations; 6.4 Planning and fieldwork required for traversing; 6.5 Traverse calculations; 6.6 Traversing with total stations; 6.7 Intersection and resection; 6.8 Control networks; Chapter 7 Global Navigation Satellite Systems; 7.1 The development of GNSS; 7.2 Components of GNSS; 7.3 GPS positioning methods; 7.4 Errors in GPS; 7.5 Differential and relative GPS; 7.6 Surveying with GNSS; 7.7 GNSS instrumentation; 7.8 GNSS in engineering surveying; Chapter 8 National coordinates and transformations.
• 8.1 Plane surveying and geodesy8.2 Geoids and ellipsoids; 8.3 Heights from GNSS; 8.4 Reference systems and reference frames; 8.5 GNSS coordinate systems; 8.6 OS Net; 8.7 Ordnance Survey National Grid and Ordnance Datum Newlyn; 8.8 Coordinate transformations; Chapter 9 Measurements, errors and specifications; 9.1 Errors and residuals; 9.2 Precision and accuracy; 9.3 Propagation of variances and standard errors; 9.4 Survey specifications; 9.5 Least squares adjustment; Chapter 10 Detail surveying and mapping; 10.1 An introduction to plan production; 10.2 Planning the survey.
• 10.3 Plotting the control network10.4 Detail; 10.5 Surveying detail using total stations and GNSS equipment; 10.6 Contours; 10.7 The completed survey plan; 10.8 Terrestrial laser scanning; 10.9 Computer-aided survey mapping and its applications; 10.10 Additional mapping systems and products; 10.11 Surveying underground services; Chapter 11 Setting out; 11.1 An introduction to setting out; 11.2 The aims of setting out; 11.3 The principles of setting out; 11.4 Applying the principles of setting out; 11.5 Setting out using laser instruments; 11.6 Machine control.

This classic text takes the reader through everything they need to know, from traditional methods through to the very latest technological developments. Ideal whether students are studying surveying as a separate discipline or as part of a civil engineering, building or construction course: accessible, well illustrated and comprehensive.