Land Surveyor Forum

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• Land Surveyor

  J. Anthony Cavell March 6, 2016 at 7:39pm

  Here is a link that might prove helpful.
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    Billy Brooks > J. Anthony Cavell March 6, 2016 at 8:56pm

    Hello there Mr. Cavell, How is Stick red, Wish I was there fishing and the crawfish was a boiling and the catfish was a jumping . Wish I was there. Where is your link ? Plane table, Those were the days.I do not know where you would find a Stadia board. I gave mine to Hugh Peiser RPLS for his yesterday display he has at his office on Antique surveying equipment. I had kept this one in really good shape. Stadia ,  I bet you could start a new Discussion  on what is stadia reduction and stadia constants, Oh well, good day  Sir,    and  Laissez LES  bons temps rouler!!!

     Billy
    • Land Surveyor

      J. Anthony Cavell > Billy Brooks March 6, 2016 at 10:49pm

      Wow!

      I thought it was included earlier.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdRXE2heYM

      c'est la vie - joie de vivre - laissez les bons temps rouler!
• GEO Ambassador

  Jaybird March 2, 2016 at 1:16pm

  from what i gathered until someone comes with a better explanation

  The orientation of a plane table at a new station is carried out with the help of three well-defined visible points available on the ground along with their corresponding plot on the plan using Bessel’s graphical solution. There are seven regions (R1–R7) in and around the area bounded by the three well-defined ground points and the plane table may be stationed in any one of them for orientation. While carrying out such field work, a completely opposite orientation was obtained for the plane-table station in reference to the ground points and corresponding plotted plan points for some of the regions, hinting at possible limitation of the method. This paper makes an effort to understand and analyze the limitation of Bessel’s graphical solution. The orientations were carried out on an AutoCAD worksheet and cross checked through field works. It was observed that the position of the plane table station and the third point used to draw the ray in reference to the line joining the first two points used for sighting played a critical role in obtaining the correct orientation of the plane table. When the position of the plane-table station and the third point were on the same side of the line joining the first two points in R2 , R3 , and R4 regions, it resulted in a completely opposite orientation of the table. This necessitated modification in Bessel’s method to obtain correct orientations, but the orientations obtained had a very high variation in the magnitude of errors in the distances at a lower scale of 1:500. The field orientations carried out at a higher scale (1:100) yielded a lower magnitude of errors in the distances. Alternatively, the limitation could be overcome by interchanging the third point with any of the first two points used for sighting such that the plane-table station point and the third points were on the opposite side of the line joining the first two points used for sighting. This alternative also yielded correct orientations with much lesser errors in distances. However, when the plane table was positioned within the area bounded by the three well-defined ground points (i.e., R1 region) and orientation was carried out as per the method, it yielded a correct orientation even though the plane-table station and the third point were on the same side of the line joining the first two points used for sighting. When the position of the plane-table station and the third points were on the opposite side of the line joining the first two points in R5 , R6 , and R7 regions, Bessel’s method yielded correct orientations.
  
  
  Read More: http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9453(2007)133%3A4...

  Plane Table Survey from GAURAV. H .TANDON

  Plane Table Survey from GAURAV. H .TANDON
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    Billy Brooks > Jaybird March 2, 2016 at 7:37pm

    Wow!!, I did not know anybody used one anymore.I started using mine as a portable table on construction sites. I have did too many topo's  with one. but contours are very accurate  when you draw them in the field.  But where is the Alidade ?  I get a headache  just thinking about looking through one. This brings back a lot of memories.   I  would  talk about it and get asked what is a plane table and what kind of instrument  ? ,  a alidade ,  What is that ?   that was usually  the response I would get.  lol   good discussion.

    Billy