After completing this course you will be able to:
•Define the advantage and disadvantage of Total Station surveying
•Define the vertical and horizontal angle measurement mechanism of Total Station instrument.
•Understand Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM) principles
•Define Rectangular vs Polar coordinate system measurements
•Define How Total Station works, need of TS orientation.
•Define open and close traversing terminology using TS
•Define application of survey using TS
•Perform topographical survey (plain table and contour survey)
•Understand the stakeout concepts
•Perform Stake out / Demarcation of Building Layouts / Plot Layouts / Roads / Alignments
•Understand the various road survey application and terminologies.
•Perform road surveys
•Transfer or Establish Benchmarks
•Measure remote distance and elevation using special function of TS
•Solve trigonometric problems using COGO function on the field / Site
•Perform onsite instrument calibration
•Calculate 2D, 3D area on the field / Site
•Calculate surface volume on the field / Site
•Understand the survey work estimation factors
•Define the procedure for download and upload data to TS
•Define the TS data formats
•Produce simple survey map using AutoCAD.