Principles of geospatial surveying / A.L. Allan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allan, A. L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surveying.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (470 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Dunbeath, Scotland : Whittles Publishing, 2007.

Summary:

This important new book replaces the author's highly successful Practical Surveying and Computations and has been completely recast to accord with modern practices of geospatial surveying.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Table of content

Preface

1 Introduction to geospatial surveying

2 Technical procedures

3 Coordinate systems

4 Coordinate transformations

5 Theory of errors and quality control

6 Least squares estimation

7 Satellite surveying

8 Survey computations

9 Heights and levels

10 Maps and map data processing

11 Construction and curves

12 Industrial and engineering surveying

13 Instrumentation

Appendix 1 Useful data

Appendix 2 Spherical trigonometry

Appendix 3 General least squares

Appendix 4 The Earth ellipsoid

Appendix 5 Photogrammetry

6 Quality control

Appendix 7 Field astronomy

Appendix 8 Survey projections

Appendix 9 Satellite surveying

Appendix 10 References and further reading

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 29, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781849953498

184995349X

9781680153989

1680153986

9781849951456

1849951454

OCLC:

1443931663