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  2. Tape correction (surveying) - Wikipedia

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    In surveying, tape correction(s) refer(s) ... s is the slope distance measured between two points on the slope line, h is the height of the slope. ...

  3. Total station - Wikipedia

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    Measurement of distance is accomplished with a modulated infrared carrier signal, generated by a small solid-state emitter within the instrument's optical path, and reflected by a prism reflector or the object under survey. The modulation pattern in the returning signal is read and interpreted by the computer in the total station.

  4. Surveying - Wikipedia

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    Surveying or land surveying is the technique, ... James Watt developed an optical meter for the measuring of distance in 1771; ... When measuring up a slope, the ...

  5. Grade (slope) - Wikipedia

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    Slope may still be expressed when the horizontal run is not known: the rise can be divided by the hypotenuse (the slope length). This is not the usual way to specify slope; this nonstandard expression follows the sine function rather than the tangent function, so it calls a 45 degree slope a 71 percent grade instead of a 100 percent. But in ...

  6. Topographic Abney level - Wikipedia

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    In topographic surveying, to determine slope to horizontal distance calculation, contour tracing and relative heights. [9] In forestry, for tree height measurement. [10] In mining and mine safety inspection, to measure the grades of haulage roads. [11] In geology, in measurements of rock outcrops and fault scarps. [12] [13] [14]

  7. Construction surveying - Wikipedia

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    Surveying equipment, such as levels and theodolites, are used for accurate measurement of angular deviation, horizontal, vertical and slope distances. With computerisation, electronic distance measurement (EDM) , total stations , GNSS surveying and laser scanning have supplemented (and to a large extent supplanted) the traditional optical ...

  8. Reduced level - Wikipedia

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    In surveying, reduced level (RL) refers to equating elevations of survey points with reference to a common assumed vertical datum.It is a vertical distance between survey point and adopted datum surface. [1]

  9. Theodolite - Wikipedia

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    A direct-readout theodolite, manufactured in the Soviet Union in 1958 and used for topographic surveying. A theodolite (/ θ i ˈ ɒ d ə ˌ l aɪ t /) [1] is a precision optical instrument for measuring angles between designated visible points in the horizontal and vertical planes.