Explore: Surveying Instruments

Instruments used in surveying include: Alidade Alidade table Cosmolabe Dioptra Dumpy level Engineer's chain Geodimeter Graphometer Groma (surveying) Laser

The Ramsden surveying instruments are those constructed by Jesse Ramsden and used in high precision geodetic surveys carried out in the period 1784 to

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions

croma, or gruma in the literature of the republican times) was a surveying instrument used in the Roman Empire. The groma allowed projecting right angles

station or total station theodolite is an electronic/optical instrument used for surveying and building construction. It is an electronic transit theodolite

measurement of latitudes and for his surveying instruments which were widely used for cartography and land survey both across the British Empire and outside

surveyor's tripod is a device used to support any one of a number of surveying instruments, such as theodolites, total stations, levels or transits. The modern

resection solution or free station position surveying and is widely used in mapping surveying. Such instruments are "intelligent" theodolites called self-registering

In surveying, a pole is bar made of wood or metal and normally held vertical, upon which different instruments can be mounted: a prism, a GPS device,

Vitruvius must have been well practised in surveying is shown by his descriptions of surveying instruments, especially the water level or chorobates,