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2015 Survey Camp is an army tradition that was discontinued in the later part of twentieth century but was reinstated in
2002 across the universities of the world with a whole new structure. It is the Civil Engineering training course for
two weeks usually after completion four semesters of Bachelor of Technology that consists of 8 days working in
the eld and 6 days of map preparation in the computer lab. Experts say that survey camp provides necessary
foundation for Civil Engineer. Each day in the course there are at least 8 hours of working in the eld. Students are
divided into groups and they get out with practising surveyors and use their equipment out in the eld. Camp
incharge teacher appoints Group leaders in each group; the leaders are responsible for all the works of his
particular group and the equipments. In the computer lab, students learn applications such as AutoCAD and
Carlson Survey. The students use these programs to take data collected from the eld to develop topographic
maps of the particular area. The basic aim of the survey camp is to know various works carried out in the industrial
eld by surveying, which includes determining the topography of particular area with the help of survey work, map
Students in survey camp during April 2015
study and reconnaissance work. The methods used for surveying are traversing, leveling and contouring.
in VKP, Meerut. India

Instruments

The instruments used include:-

Auto Level

Total station
Theodolite (transit)

Compass (prismatic and surveyor)
Ranging rods
Measuring Tape
Levelling Sta
Plane table and all its accessories (in case drawing is prepared with hand)
Tripod stand (for optical instruments)

Procedure
The working rule used in survey camp is quite simple; all the groups of students are allotted di erent stations for
survey work. For rst couple of days, the students carry out traversing work to determine length of di erent sides
of traverse and include angles between them. Coordinates of each side are also determined by formulas, Latitude=
Lcos and Departure= Lsin , where L is the length of the side and is the angle which the side makes with North
or South directions (the instruments used in traversing include Total Station or Theodolite with stand, Compass
with stand, ranging rods and measuring tape). Then in next step RL (reduced level) of each station is determined
with reference to permanent benchmark (the instruments used to determine reduced level include Auto Level with
stand and Levelling Sta ). Then RL of di erent points keeping speci ed spacing between them with reference to
each station is determined. The points having same RL are joined to form contour lines and thus topographic map
of an area is prepared using AutoCAD or with the help of plane table survey.
Students in survey camp doing Plane
table survey during Mar 2015 in VKP,
Meerut. (India)

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