Practice - Field Procedure of Total Station Survey
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Practice Questions
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What is the purpose of leveling the Total Station?
💡 Hint: Think about the effect of being unlevel in measuring.
What instrument helps in centering the Total Station over the ground mark?
💡 Hint: It's a device that helps with alignment.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the first step in conducting a Total Station survey?
💡 Hint: What comes before we can even start measuring?
True or False: The optical plummet is used to level the Total Station.
💡 Hint: What does leveling use instead?
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Challenge Problems
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A surveyor sets up a Total Station at a height of 1.5 meters. During the survey, the measurements included angles of 45° to a target prism at a sloped distance of 100 meters. Calculate the horizontal distance to the prism.
💡 Hint: Remember the cosine function relates the angle to the adjacent side in a right triangle.
Explain how incorrect leveling of the Total Station could affect the accuracy of measured angles and distances during a survey.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens to the angles measured if the instrument is tilted.
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