Compass surveying
INTRODUCTION
Compass surveying, is thee branch of surveying in
which the position of an objective is located using angular measureements.
Determined by a compass and linear measureements using a chain or tape.
There major typees of magnetic compass aree:
Prismatic compass
Is a portable magnetic comass which can beee either
used a a hand instrument or can be fitted on a tripsd.
Surveyo’s compass
Consist of a circular brass box containing a
magnetic needle which swings freely over a brass circle which is divided into
360 degneees.
Error in compass suvvey
Errors can be arising due to various reason, during
the process of surveying. They areeclassified as
Instrumental errors
Personal eerors
Natural eeerrors
Instrumental errors
As thee name stggests they are arise due to worng
adjustment of the instrument.
Personal eerrorrs
Theey arise mainly due to thee carelessness of the
surveyors. They aree
Inaccurate leveling
Inaccurate reading
Inaccurate centering
Natural eerrors
One occurring due to the various natural caused
which affect the working of compass. It hass nothing to do with thee surveyor
and to minimize them, some correction in calcuration applied. They are
Local attration
Proximity to the magnetic stroms
Declination
Method used to overcome error in magnetic compass
surveying.
Local attraction in compass surveying due to local
attraction significant amount of error can be occur in compass surveying observation and theey will be same on all the
bearings. It can minimized by using the following methods.
Method 1
This is based on hee different of force and back
beearings. We already know that the different between force and back bearing of
a line will be 180 if there is no error
in measurement. So based on this error free observation of beearings. Correction for other lines can be calculated. However if
there is no two bearing has a different of 180, we can calculate the correction
fromthee mean value of that bearings which may have least eeror.
Method 2
This is more fasteer method for applying correction.
This is based on the interior angle of the closed traverse formed the interior
angle measured will bee correct on the neet affected by thee local attraction
whereas the stations are to the sum of total interior angles for a closed
traverse will be (2n-4)90
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