Surveying: Principles and Applications

by Barry F. Kavanagh

Book Overview

SURVEYING: PRINCIPLES & APPLICATIONS, 9/e is the clearest, easiest to understand, and most useful introduction to surveying as it is practiced today. It brings together expert coverage of surveying... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131188623
• ISBN13: 9780131188624
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 801 Pages
• Weight: 3.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

It measures up.

If found this text to be quite clear. The examples made sense and were provided in good quantity. The explanations were understandable and informative. The problems seemed to be good practice. I would certainly recommend this book.

Used books

The book is in unbeleivable great condition for a used book and is such a great help. The service was of equivalent greatness. Great jod and service guys keep it up

Correct book, Edition, and condition

The product was what i ordered. No mistakes. Correct edition and publication date. Thank you.

very nice

the sender sent the book in a timely manner and the book is in great condition

Good reference

I've been teaching from this book for five years, so I'm obviously prepared to endorse it. I have required it for both civil engineering technology and civil engineering science students, although it is most useful to the former.Several competing texts in surveying are in their ninth (or greater) editions. Ordinarily in academia, this is a testament to the staying power of the author's work. The surveying profession, however, still relies upon texts that have long out-lived their original authors, who have since retired or passed away (e.g., Bouchard, Brinker, Brown). In the area of boundary control and legal principles, the seminal ideas of Brown are still the standard. In measurement techniques, however, much has changed. Tape corrections, for the typical civil engineer, have been relegated to an obscure niche in surveying trivia. GPS and GIS should be separate and substantial chapters in a good general surveying reference. Current general tomes, however, are far from the cutting edge.Kavanagh and Bird have provided in their fourth edition a description of GPS that amounts to 12 pages. GIS is afforded even less space. The text remains a good practical reference for civil engineers on traditional topics, without digressing into treatment of esoteric subjects, but as GPS continues to make inroads to the mainstream of measurement technique, and GIS becomes the standard by which surveying models will be constructed, the demand for a fifth edition that gives these topics expanded treatment will increase.