Customer Reviews

Schaum's Outline of Introductory Surveying (Schaum's)

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If you are looking for reference materials to take the California Engineering Surveying Exam as part of the Civil Engineer's PE exam, this is not the book you want. It doesn't cover the general concepts that an engineer is looking for. Seems to directed more at a person working on a surveying crew instead.

A useful text for beginning surveying students. It does not, unfortunately cover modern equipment or methods.

This book was required for a surveying class. It goes over basic techniques without any derivations. The material is dated, but still valid. Doesn't have anything about modern surveying equipment and techniques (GPS, total stations,...etc). Still if you need the basics it's ok.

I used an earlier version of this book in Engineering school and found it to be a tremondous help, especially with its examples and illustrations.

Book is much too difficult to understand. Need to tell folks that this won't help you if you don't already know a great deal about surveying

Requires a connecting book to enable reader to work with modern day total stations and the softwares available with them. Typically, advanced topics such as developing set-collection of survey points, their imporance and criteria for selection etc.