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Land Surveying ACRONYMS
Posted by Knox Norman on July 7, 2020 at 3:28pm in A
ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey
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A Surveying Terms
Posted by Justin Farrow on May 2, 2020 at 10:29pm in A
Boundary Survey
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B Terms in Surveying
Posted by Justin Farrow on May 2, 2020 at 10:31pm in B
Control (Surveying) (Geodetic)
Posted by Mark Smith on July 28, 2020 at 6:33pm in C
Construction Staking
Posted by Blue Grass Surveyor on June 25, 2020 at 3:40pm in C
Civil Engineering
Posted by Waxy Surveyor on June 4, 2020 at 3:57pm in C
Construction Survey
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Double Corner (RLS, PLS, RPLS, PLSS)
Posted by Blue Grass Surveyor on July 18, 2020 at 2:53pm in D
Double Rodding
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Elevation Certificate
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GUNTER'S CHAIN
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Geomatics
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Improvement Location Report (ILR)
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Lot Survey
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L Terms in Land Surveying
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Magnetic Declination
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O Terms in Land Surveying
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Pacing
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Prism (Surveying)
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P Terms in Land Surveying
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What is Spatial Data?
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Tape Survey - What is a Tape Survey?
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Y Terms in Surveying
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Z Terms in Land Surveying
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Improvement Location Report (ILR)
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GUNTER'S CHAIN
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Tape Survey - What is a Tape Survey?
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Control (Surveying) (Geodetic)
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Tools Used in Surveying
Instruments used in surveying include:
- Alidade
- Alidade table
- Cosmolabe
- Dioptra
- Dumpy level
- Engineer's chain
- Graphometer
- Groma (surveying)
- Laser scanning
- Level staff
- Measuring tape
- Plane table
- Pole (surveying)
- Prism (surveying) (corner cube retroreflector)
- Prismatic compass (angle measurement)
- Ramsden surveying instruments
- Ranging rod
- Surveyor's chain
- Tachymeter (surveying)
- Tape (surveying)
- Theodolite
- Half theodolite
- Plain theodolite
- Simple theodolite
- Great theodolite
- Non-transit theodolite
- Transit theodolite
- Seconds theodolite
- Electronic theodolite
- Mining theodolite
- Suspension theodolite
- Traveling theodolite
- Pibal theodolite
- Registering theodolite
- Gyro-theodolite
- Construction theodolite
- Photo-theodolite
- Robotic theodolite
- Vernier theodolite
- Total station
- Transit (surveying)
- Tripod (surveying)
- Universal instrument (surveying)
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