A Textbook Of Surveying And Levelling

The author has made an attempt to write this textbook after twenty-five years experience in the field of ‘Surveying and Teaching’. This book is primarily written for the students of A.M.I.E. (India), Degree and Diploma classes, but it will also be useful as a reference book for practicing engineers and surveyors.

While writing this book, the requirements of all the students regarding the latest trend of examinations, have been kept in view. The subject matter has been divided into sixteen chapters which are systematically arranged and discussed in detail with elaborate use of illustrations. Important questions from examination papers of A.M.I.E. (India), Universities and State Technical Boards, are given as solved examples in a logical sequence. At the end of each chapter, large number of objective type questions, essay type questions and numerical problems, have been added for the students to solve them independently and then to compare their results with those given in the book.

1. Introduction

2. Linear Measurements

3. Chain Surveying

4. Compass Surveying

5. Plane Table Surveying

6. Levelling

7. Contouring

8. Areas

9. Volumes

10. Minor instrument

11. Theodolite

12. Theodolite Traversing

13. Tacheometric Surveying

14. Trignometrical levelling

15. Simple curves

16. Compound and Reserve Curves

17. Transition Curves

18. Vertical Curves

19. Setting out Works

20. Map Projections

21. Triangulation

22. Photogrammetric Surveying

23. Modern Surveying Instruments

24. Remote Sensing System

25. Geographical Information System (GIS)

Objective Type Questions

Classified Questions 

Appendix-A 

Mathematical Formulae and Greek Letter Chart 

Tacheometric Tables 

Index