Civil Engineering Surveying (Second Edition) (Includes one DVD-ROM)

Author: Qin Hui
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: This book is organized in accordance with the "Teaching Syllabus for Surveying" from the "Undergraduate Training Objectives and Programs and Curriculum Teaching Syllabus for Civil Engineering" compiled by the Advisory Committee for Civil Engineering Undergraduate Education in Higher Education. It has been recommended for publication after being personally reviewed and endorsed by Professor Ning Jinsheng, Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Surveying and Mapping Education in Higher Education and a Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. This book is suitable as a textbook for the "Surveying" course in civil engineering programs, as well as for architecture, urban planning, water supply and drainage, real estate management and operation, and surveying engineering programs. It can also be used as a continuing education textbook for civil engineering and construction technicians. The book applies Mathematica, Excel, and AutoCAD as basic tools for proving surveying formulas, performing data calculations, and creating drawings. On the basis of an appropriate introduction to the principles of digital mapping and the Global Positioning System (GPS), it introduces the basic methods of digital mapping and GPS control surveying, combined with the CASS5.1 topographic and cadastral digital mapping software and the NGS9600 static GPS receiver.