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Construction Measurements - Couverture rigide

Barry, B. Austin

 
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Synopsis

This revision of the successful text/reference on construction measurements contains much new material concerning electronic surveying and remote sensing. The index and the gathered section titles at the start of each chapter make for easy reference. New to this edition is coverage of the GPS satellite positioning system, electronic distance measurement (EDM), laser sweep, calculator techniques, radial surveying and tracking, Loran-C, inertial navigation surveying, 3-point resection, computer software, and electronic fieldbooks. Covers such topics as difference of elevation, angle measurements and directions, coordinate surveying and layout, offshore measurements, and random field and office techniques.

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À propos de l'auteur

About the author B. Austin Barry, F.S.C., is Professor of Civil Engineering at Manhattan College and was Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department there for nine years. A past President of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, he was accorded honorary membership in that society in 1983. He was the first recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers Surveying and Mapping Medal in 1972, and was chosen for election into the Honorary Membership in 1987. Br. Barry is the author of Errors In Practical Measurement in Engineering, Science, and Technology (Wiley, 1978).

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