McCormac, Jack C.

Surveying / Jack McCormac, Wayne Sarasua and William J. Davis - Sixth edition - New York : John Wiley & Son, Inc., c2013 - xi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

1 Introduction -- 2 Introduction to Measurements -- 3 Distance Measurement -- 4 Distance Corrections -- 5 Electronic Distance Measuring Instruments (EDMs) -- 6 Introduction to Leveling -- 7 Differential Leveling -- 8 Leveling, Continued -- 9 Angles and Directions -- 10 Measuring Angle and Directions With Total Stations -- 11 Miscellaneous Angle Discussion -- 12 Traverse Adjustment and Area Computation -- 13 Computer Calculations and Omitted Measurements -- 14 Topographic Surveying -- 15 The Global Positioning System (GPS) -- 16 GPS Field Applications -- 17 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -- 18 GIS, Continued -- 19 Construction Surveying -- 20 Volumes -- 21 Land Surveying or Property Surveying -- 22 Horizontal Curves -- 23 Vertical Curves -- 24 Surveying-the Profession.

"McCormac's 6th edition of Surveying provides a basic overview to help readers understand and communicate with surveyors. New features include more applications in engineering areas such as environmental, transportation, geotechnical, construction; more applications to GIS and GPS; added coverage of Geomatics, including setting up data to do analysis and make decisions; and more examples and increase number of homework problems"

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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- CIVIL -- GENERAL

TA 545 .M33 2014