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A site planning survey is a type of land surveying required by local governing jurisdictions for building permit applications. It is used to plan developments and propose improvements of a site before construction starts. More specifically, a site planning survey is often done for designing commercial sites, industrial sites, residential areas, and road infrastructure.
Site planning surveys typically make use of elements of both topographic and boundary surveys. They involve topography, grading,
When a land surveyor locates and establishes points between two survey stations, that act is called ranging. There are two conventional methods of ranging: the direct method and the indirect method.
Direct Ranging Method
This is applicable to situations where the ends of the survey stations are inter-visible. Meaning, you can see point X from point Y and vice versa.
Indirect Ranging Method
This one is for survey stations that aren’t inter-visible. Ranging rods are set up between the two points or s
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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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