Surveying: Principles and applications

By Barry F Kavanagh

Book Overview

This manual presents a clear discussion of surveying principles, and applications for mapping and engineering surveys. It has a good selection of problems that illuminate and reinforce concepts, as well as providing up-to-date information on the latest technological innovations. Real-world emphasis is key to the continued success of this volume and the success a reader has in understanding surveying concepts. So real world is this text that readers often arrive for their first day of work carrying it . The volume addresses basic surveying principles from distance measurement, and transits/theodolites to traverse surveys, electronic surveying measurement, geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS), as well as remote sensing and surveying applications. For construction, civil technology, civil engineering and surveying professionals.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0835974057
• ISBN13: 9780835974059
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Reston Pub. Co
• Length: 900 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent companion for the California PE - Principles of Surveying

I had used the standard study materials, and due to various reviews by others who had taken the test, decided to supplement my review by studying the topics covered in more detail with this reference, having not taken a surveying course in my undergraduate studies. The material is clear and concise (for a novice like myself), and aided my preparation greatly.

very nice

the sender sent the book in a timely manner and the book is in great condition

Good reference

I've been teaching from this book for five years, so I'm obviously prepared to endorse it. I have required it for both civil engineering technology and civil engineering science students, although it is most useful to the former.Several competing texts in surveying are in their ninth (or greater) editions. Ordinarily in academia, this is a testament to the staying power of the author's work. The surveying profession, however, still relies upon texts that have long out-lived their original authors, who have since retired or passed away (e.g., Bouchard, Brinker, Brown). In the area of boundary control and legal principles, the seminal ideas of Brown are still the standard. In measurement techniques, however, much has changed. Tape corrections, for the typical civil engineer, have been relegated to an obscure niche in surveying trivia. GPS and GIS should be separate and substantial chapters in a good general surveying reference. Current general tomes, however, are far from the cutting edge.Kavanagh and Bird have provided in their fourth edition a description of GPS that amounts to 12 pages. GIS is afforded even less space. The text remains a good practical reference for civil engineers on traditional topics, without digressing into treatment of esoteric subjects, but as GPS continues to make inroads to the mainstream of measurement technique, and GIS becomes the standard by which surveying models will be constructed, the demand for a fifth edition that gives these topics expanded treatment will increase.