EASTERN VI SAYAS STATE UNI VERSI TY

College of Engineering
Department of Geodetic Engineering
Tacloban City

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GE 414
Property Surveys II

Name: _Victony M. Agner_________________ Date Performed: Feb. 18, 2020

Lab Schedule: _____________ Date Submitted: March 7, 2020

MEASUREMENT OF A CLOSED TRAVERSE

Exercise No. 1

I. Introduction:
The traverse survey conducted in the EVSU Compose, traverse involve placing
survey station along the line or path of travel and then using the previously
surveyed point as a base for observing the next point until such of minimum
points. The surveyed area that give not more than five hundred square meters.

II. Objective
a) To become familiar with using a total station to measure horizontal angles,
horizontal distances and height differences.
b) To become familiar working with angles expressed
c) To apply compass rule adjustment to the traverse (polygon) measured in the
previous lab session.
d) To balance the traverse with respect to elevation and reference it to a known
bench mark.

III. Materials:
 Total Station
 Tripod
 Prism
 Rod
 Tape

IV. Procedure:
1. There will be 7 or 8 points polygon for this lab. Locate the figure to be measured.
Provide a complete documentation of your work including the design of the
parcel.
2. Prepare your field book for recording horizontal angles, horizontal distances and
height differences.
3. Draw a sketch to show the location of the figure to be measured and label the
vertices.
4. Begin your measurements by setting up on one of the points; this becomes your
instrument station for the first set of measurements.
5. Enter the current temperature and barometric pressure on the instrument. If
unavailable, estimate the amount of environment temperature.
6. Measure the heights of the Total Station and the prism and then enter on the
instrument.
7. The interior angles of the figure are to be measured as “angles to the right”.
8. Set your horizontal angle to zero while sighting the rod on the backsight point.
9. Measure the horizontal distance of the line from the instrument station to the
backsight point and record it in your field book.
10. Measure the height difference to the back sight point and record it in your field
book.
11. Turn the Total Station to the foresight point and record the horizontal angle. This is
the interior angle for that vertex of the figure as measured with the instrument in the
direct position.
12. While sighting the foresight point, measure horizontal distance of the line from the
instrument station to the foresight point and record it in your field book.
13. Measure the height difference to the foresight point and record it in your field book.
14. Plunge the telescope and reset the back sight (zero) to measure the interior
horizontal angle again with the instrument in reverse position.
15. Move the Total Station to each point in the figure and repeat the process as
described above to obtain 2 sets of angle measurement for each interior angle,
two distance measurements and two height differences for each side of the figure.
16. Measure two “geo-referencing” angels:
a. From your “Base Control Point” geodetic position (Use Evsu 3), sight your
“Back sight Control Point” and turn the clockwise angle to your nearest
parcel corner (we`ll call this the “reference corner” of your parcel.) Turn this
angle twice and take the mean.
b. Set up on the “Reference Corner”, backsight the “Base Control Point”
geodetic station and turn the angle to the first station in your traverse. This
line is termed the “reference side”. Double check the angle and take the
mean.
17. Calculate the mean interior angles and record them in your field book.
18. Calculate the angular misclosure of your traverse and show the calculation and
result in your field book.
19. Calculate the mean distance for each side and record it in your field book.
20. Calculate the mean height difference for each side and record it in your fieldbook.
21. Calculate the elevation of traverse by adding the height difference (Δh) from the
initial traverse point (first point your group set up).
22. Apply Compass Rule for adjustments.
III. Results and Discussion:

Table 1: (Table description/title)

Stat. Occ. Stats. Obs. Azimuth Distance VD

EVSU3 P1 309-34-24 28.513 0.149
P1 P2 279-24-12 30.785 1.445
P2 P3 206-25-17 49.935 0.373
P3 P4 186-04-14 47.182 1.439
P4 P5 124-36-28 49.855 0.533
P5 P6 24-57-22 27.511 -1.447
P6 EVSU3 20-27-40 75.801 -0.695

 Adjustments of Data using Compass Rules.

a. To get adjusted bearing of point one at EVSU 3 from north west is 360 minus
observed azimuths.
b. The same process from one to seven at (a)

 Adjusted Latitude & Departure and the Corrected latitude & Departure

a. To get latitude and the departure as easily we can use also the calculator in shift rec,
input first distance and adjusted bearing of line one to seven.
b. Sum the latitude & departure.
c. Get the LEC using Pythagorean theorem of sum latitude & departure.
 Corrected latitude & departure

 The new lengths and bearing for the adjusted traverse

a. Using calculator only to get the new distances and bearings arc tan departure over
latitude. same process in the other adjusted latitude and departure.
b. We can now get zero of adjusted latitude & departure using plus and minus depend
on the sign.
IV. Conclusion:
Therefore, this kind of activity make the student for sue to do the survey not only for pass
but to make the good work on real survey on time as said the deadline upon the submitting.

V. Documentation

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