DETAILED SURVEY OF UNIVERSITY CAMPUS USING ADVANCED SURVEYING INSTRUMENT-TOTAL STATION

Abstract

Now a day surveying instruments are advanced and more accurate. These instruments have precision which gives less erroneous data, and have capabilities to analyse data and prepares maps with ease. Total station is one such instrument which is widely used because of its long distance reading and quick measuring ability. It measures distance with an accuracy of about 1.5 millimetres +2 parts per million over a distance of up to 1,500 meters. Reflector less total station can measure distance to any object that is reasonably light in colour, up to a few hundred meter. Manual errors involved in reading and Electronic display unit is capable of displaying various values
when respective keys are pressed. Each point data can be stored in an electronic note book automatically. This instrument can be especially used for two types of work namely general survey i.e. collection of data from field, and stakeout data on field. This paper presents a surveying work carried out using advanced electronic surveying instrument - total station. This work has been done in two stages. In the first stage surveying work on field is carried out to collect the actual ground. In the second stage the data has been analysed and map was prepared using commercial software.