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SVI 111 Basic Surveying I

100 levelEnvironmental Sciences9 topics

SVI 111 covers 9 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. History, definitions and principles of surveying
  2. Applications of surveying
  3. Instrument design, adjustment and care
  4. Distance measurement techniques
  5. Error correction methods
  6. Chain surveying with chains, steel bands and tapes
  7. Offset procedures
  8. Sources of errors, accuracy and corrections
  9. Magnetic orientation fundamentals

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

History, definitions and principles of surveying

This topic introduces what surveying is, how it developed historically, and the basic principles that guide all surveying work. For examination purposes, you must master the meaning of surveying, distinguish major historical stages and types, and clearly explain core principles such as working from whole to part and fixing points by at least two independent measurements.

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