CE8351 Surveying Syllabus:

CE8351 Surveying Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2017

OBJECTIVE:

• To introduce the rudiments of plane surveying and geodetic principles to Civil Engineers.
• To learn the various methods of plane and geodetic surveying to solve the real world Civil Engineering problems.
• To introduce the concepts of Control Surveying
• To introduce the basics of Astronomical Surveying

UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF CONVENTIONAL SURVEYING AND LEVELLING

Classifications and basic principles of surveying — Equipment and accessories for ranging and chaining — Methods of ranging — Compass — Types of Compass — Basic Principles- Bearing — Types — True Bearing — Magnetic Bearing — Levelling- Principles and theory of Levelling — Datum- — Bench Marks — Temporary and Permanent Adjustments- Methods of Levelling- Booking — Reduction — Sources of errors in Levelling — Curvature and refraction.

UNIT II THEODOLITE AND TACHEOMETRIC SURVEYING

Horizontal and vertical angle measurements — Temporary and permanent adjustments — Heights and distances — Tacheometer — Stadia Constants — Analytic Lens -Tangential and Stadia Tacheometry surveying — Contour — Contouring — Characteristics of contours — Methods of contouring — Tacheometric contouring — Contour gradient — Uses of contour plan and map

UNIT III CONTROL SURVEYING AND ADJUSTMENT

Horizontal and vertical control — Methods — specifications — triangulation- baseline — satellite stations — reduction to centre- trigonometrical levelling — single and reciprocal observations — traversing — Gale?s table. — Errors Sources- precautions and corrections — classification of errors — true and most probable values — weighed observations — method of equal shifts –principle of least squares — normal equation — correlates- level nets- adjustment of simple triangulation networks.

UNIT IV ADVANCED TOPICS IN SURVEYING

Hydrographic Surveying — Tides — MSL — Sounding methods — Three point problem — Strength of fix — astronomical Surveying — Field observations and determination of Azimuth by altitude and hour angle methods –.Astronomical terms and definitions — Motion of sun and stars — Celestial coordinate systems — different time systems — Nautical Almanac — Apparent altitude and corrections — Field observations and determination of time, longitude, latitude and azimuth by altitude and hour angle method

UNIT V MODERN SURVEYING

Total Station : Advantages — Fundamental quantities measured — Parts and accessories — working principle — On board calculations — Field procedure — Errors and Good practices in using Total Station GPS Surveying : Different segments — space, control and user segments — satellite configuration — signal structure — Orbit determination and representation — Anti Spoofing and Selective Availability — Task of control segment — Hand Held and Geodetic receivers — data processing — Traversing and triangulation.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Kanetkar.T.P and Kulkarni.S.V, Surveying and Levelling, Parts 1 and 2, Pune Vidyarthi Griha Prakashan, Pune, 2008
2. Punmia.B.C., Ashok K.Jain and Arun K Jain , Surveying Vol. I and II, Lakshmi Publications Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 2005
3. James M. Anderson and Edward M. Mikhail, “Surveying, Theory and Practice”, 7th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2001.
4. Bannister and S. Raymond, “Surveying”, 7th Edition, Longman 2004.
5. Laurila, S.H. “Electronic Surveying in Practice”, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 1993
6. Venkatramaiah, Text book of Surveying, University press, New Delhi, 2014

REFERENCE:

1. Alfred Leick, GPS satellite surveying, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 3rd Edition, 2004.
2. Guocheng Xu, GPS Theory , Algorithms and Applications, Springer – Berlin, 2003.
3. SatheeshGopi, rasathishkumar, N. madhu, Advanced Surveying, Total Station GPS and Remote Sensing Pearson education, 2007
4. Roy S.K., “Fundamentals of Surveying”, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2004.
5. Arora K.R.,”Surveying Vol I and II”, Standard Book house, 10th Edition 2008