This fourth edition provides an updated and comprehensive coverage on all the essentials of practical surveying. The most outstanding feature of the book is the condensation of the exhaustive theory into a symmetric, point-wise pattern and insertions of explanatory notes particularly with reference to the more common surveying operations for easy learning of the students.

1. Fundamental Concepts 2. Horizontal Measurements 3. Compass Surveying 4. Theodolite 5. Traversing 6. Measurement of Vertical Distances 7. Tacheometry 8. Plane Table Surveying 9. Contouring 10. Total-station Survey 11. Curves 12. Measurement of Area 13. Measurement of Volumes 14. Setting Out Works