Survey camp
Survey Camp is an army tradition that was discontinued in the later part of twentieth century but was reinstated in 2002 across the universities of the world with a whole new structure.
Instruments
The instruments used include:
- Theodolite (transit)
- Total Station and Prism
- Compass (prismatic and surveyor)
- Ranging rods
- Measuring Tape
- Levelling Staff
- Tripod stand (for optical instruments)[5]
- Level (instrument)
Practicals
The survey practicals generally performed in Survey camp are listed below:
- Simple levelling
- Fly levelling
- Trigonometric levelling
- To determine and draw RL's of longitudinal and cross section of road.
- Measuring horizontal angles by Ordinary, Repetition and Reiteration methods
- Compass traversing
- Gale traverse
- Topographic map preparation
Procedure
The working rule used in survey camp is quite simple, all the groups of students are allotted different stations for survey work. For first couple of days, the students carry out traversing work to determine length of different sides of traverse and included angles between them. Coordinates of each side are also determined by formulas, Latitude= L× and Departure= L×, where L is the length of the side and is the angle which the side makes with North or South directions (the instruments used in traversing include Total Station or Theodolite with stand, Compass with stand, ranging rods and measuring tape). Then in next step
Results
In Survey camp, students obtain extensive hands-on experience in the use of
See also
- Tape (surveying)
- Tape correction (surveying)
- Permanent adjustments of theodolites
- Temporary adjustments of theodolites
References
- ^ Survey camp on the Texas A&M University website
- ^ a b Civil engineering department of University of Toronto
- ^ Survey camp at Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary Park, Gurgaon
- ^ Surveying, Volume 1 by C. L. Kochher
- ^ a b Surveying by B. C. Punmia and Ashok Kumar Jain