Plane Surveying includes and provides exhaustive coverage on the subject. The text matter is resolved into smaller easily understandable portions and is presented in such a style that more matured students can skip over some sub-headings while others may go thoroughly through them. The book will cater to the needs of students taking up the subject in diploma, degree, Institution of Engineers and Institution of Surveyors examination. The book can also be used by the practising surveyors as a ready reference. The book may also be of interest to the students of Mining Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Geology, Geography, etc. The salient features of the sixteen chapters dealt within this book are : Exhaustive coverage; Clear concise itemised presentation styled for relaxed understanding to graded readers; Step by step mathematics; 340 solved problems and 569 illustrative figures.

Contents:
Introduction
1. Chain Surveying
2.Traversing with Chain and Compass
3. Fundamentals of Optics
4. Theodolite Traversing
5. Plane Table Surveying
6.l Levelling
7. Contouring
8. Tacheometry
9. Areas
10. Earthwork
11. Setting out Works
12. Setting out of Curves
13. Instruments
14. Underground
15 Surveying