A Text Book Of Surveying And Levelling

A Text Book Of Surveying And Levelling by R. Agor

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Book Summary:

The author feels great pleasure to present this thoroughly revised, edited and updated edition to the learned professors/lecturers/students. In this edition the latest solved questions of the GATE Examination have been added at the end of book for their guidance.

This edition of the treatise is thoroughly revised, edited and recomposed. Latest questions of various competitive examinations and other universities have been added to respective chapters.

Besides this new chapters on Remote Sensing System and Geographical Information System have also been added at the end, to meet the requirements of students. Besides, many Objective Type and Multi Choice Questions (M.C.Q.) have been added throughout the text.

It is hoped that the book will be further useful to B.Sc., Engg.,Degree, Diploma students of various Indian Universities and Board of Technical Education as well as it will serve as a reference for field engineers and surveyors.

Audience of the Book :

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.

Table of Contents:

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. Trigonometrical 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

GATE Questions

Mathematical Formulae and Greek Letter Chart

Tacheometric Tables