Surveying, Sixth Edition

  • 8h 50m
  • Jack McCormac, Wayne Sarasua, William J. Davis
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2013

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.

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • Introduction to Measurements
  • Distance Measurement
  • Distance Corrections
  • Electronic Distance Measuring Instruments (EDMs)
  • Introduction to Leveling
  • Differential Leveling
  • Leveling, Continued
  • Angles and Directions
  • Measuring Angles and Directions with Total Stations
  • Miscellaneous Angle Discussion
  • Traverse Adjustment and Area Computation
  • Computer Calculations and Omitted Measurements
  • Topographic Surveying
  • The Global Positioning System (GPS)
  • GPS Field Applications
  • Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • GIS, Continued
  • Construction Surveying
  • Volumes
  • Land Surveying or Property Surveying
  • Horizontal Curves
  • Vertical Curves
  • Surveying—The Profession
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