The Surveying Handbook

Chapman & Hall - International Thomson Publishing, 1997. Second Edition, third printing. Hardcover. Near fine. Tall 8vo., pp 967, glossy boards, illustrated, charts, tables, graphs, notes, appendices, extensive index. -- Partial Contents: Measurement errors - Linear Measurements - Angle Measurements - Leveling - Instrument Adjustments - Traversing - Survey Drafting - Triangulation - Trilateration - Geodesy - Inertial and Satellite Surveys - Global Positioning System Surveying - Survey Measurement Adjustments by Least Squares - Field Astronomy for Azimuth Determinations - Map Projections - Plane Coordinate Systems - Photogrammetry - Compass Surveying - The Planetable: Instruments and Methods - Control Surveys - Construction Surveying - Route Surveys - Hydrographic Surveying - Boundary Surveys - Boundary Location Along Waterways - Mining Surveys - Public Land Surveys - Optical Tooling - Land Descriptions - Role of the Land Surveyor in Land Litigation Pretrial - Courtroom Techniques - Land & Geographic Information Systems. "New chapters have been added on water boundaries boundary law and geodetic positioning satellites. The chapter on land data systems was rewritten to provide a dramatic updating of information thus broadening the coverage of The Handbook. The same may be said for the state plane coordinate chapter. The material on public lands and construction surveying was reorganized as well. Appendices were added to tabulate some information that was buried in the earlier edition in several places. Numerous other changes were incorporated to help the handbook retain its profession-wide scope one step beyond the scope of an upper-division college textbook. Along with the most sophisticated techniques and equipment the reader can find information on techniques once popular and still important "-preface.