5 Ways a Surveyor or Engineer can Achieve Accurate Levelling
Top 5 Ways to ensure that you always achieve high accuracy on levelling traverses.
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How to carry out a levelling traverse or run. The Levelling Procedure.
Carrying out a leveling traverse must be done to a procedure. This article runs through how to carry this out.
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5 of the Greatest Errors to Affect Total Station Accuracy.
Total Stations are very accurate pieces of equipment that are very expensive. But they can be useless if they are affected by these 5 factors.
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How to setup a Total Station above a Control Point
Setting up a total station with either an optical plummet or laser plummet can be quickly achieved in a few easy steps.
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Calibration of GPS Surveying Equipment
There is no doubt that GPS surveying equipment is a great tool for surveyors and engineers. They allow us to easily take accurate measurements over very large distances quickly and easily. But how do we know that these measurements accurate every time? Usually, all the surveying equipment we use will be calibrated at least yearly.
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How to Calculate Road Offset Profiles
When constructing a new, or even an existing road we need to be able to translate design information into practical information that can be used throughout the road construction process.
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How accurate can your linear measurements be?
Whenever we take a measurement, we want it to be as accurate as possible. We need the measurement to be right. But we know that any measurement that we take will have an error associated with it.
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The Quick and Simple Tripod Test.
One of the most overlooked part of any Surveying Equipment Kit is the Tripod. If the tripod is not maintained or checked then the consequences could be expensive.
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Methods for Booking a Levelling Run. The Rise and Fall Method.
This is a guide to the Rise and Fall method of booking a levelling run. This guide goes through the whole process using real world figures for the calculations
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Avoid these 3 Measurement Errors in Construction Setting Out
Setting out on construction sites always involves either taking measurements or giving measurements from points or base lines.
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