Elementary Surveying, Global Edition, 14th edition

For Surveying courses offered in Civil Engineering departments

This highly readable, best-selling text presents basic concepts and practical material in each of the areas fundamental to modern surveying (geomatics) practice. Its depth and breadth are ideal for self-study. Elementary Surveying, Fourteenth Edition, is updated throughout to reflect the latest advances and technology.

Teaching and Learning Experience

This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. It will help:

• Emphasize the Theory of Errors in Surveying Work: Common errors and mistakes are listed to remind students to exercise caution in their work.
• Use Strong Pedagogy Tools to Teach: Numerous worked example problems, figures, illustrations, and end-of-chapter problems help students apply concepts.
• Reflect the Latest Advances in Technology: To keep your course current and relevant, this edition covers the latest advancements in surveying technology.

Emphasize the Theory of Errors in Surveying Work

• At the end of each chapter, common errors and mistakes related to the topic covered are listed to remind students to exercise caution in their work.
• Practical suggestions from the authors’ years of experience are interjected throughout the text.

Use Strong Pedagogy Tools to Teach

• More than 400 figures and illustrations help clarify discussions.
• Numerous worked example problems illustrate computational procedures.
• Over 1000 end-of-chapter problems help students apply concepts.
  • UPDATED: Many of the 1000 after-chapter problems have been rewritten so that instructors can create new assignments for their students.
• Solutions to Selected Problems are available in an Appendix for students to check their work.
• The Companion Website features the following resources:
  • UPDATED: Updated versions of Stats, Wolfpack, and Matrix are included on the Companion website www.pearsonhighered.com/ghilani.
    • These programs contain options for statistical computations, traverse computations for polygon, link, and radial traverses; area calculations; astronomical azimuth reduction; two-dimensional coordinate transformations; horizontal and vertical curve computations; and least squares adjustments.
    • Mathcad® worksheets and Excel® spreadsheets are included.
    • The Mercator, Albers Equal Area, Oblique Stereographic, and Oblique Mercator map projections are included to give students extra experience with map projections.
  • Every new copy of the book comes with access to Video Solutions and a Pearson eText. Video solutions are complete, step-by-step solution walkthroughs of representative homework problems. The Pearson eText is a complete on-line version of the book that includes highlighting, note-taking and search capabilities. These resources can be accessed on the Companion Website.
    • NEW: Seven new Video Solutions demonstrate instrumental procedures and record keeping.
  • An Instructor’s Manual is available to qualifying instructors on the Companion Website. Contact your Pearson Representative for information on how to access them.

Reflect the Latest Advances in Technology

• An emphasis on total stations as the instruments for making angle and distance observations provides an up-to-date presentation of surveying equipment and procedures.
  • NEW: Images of new instruments and field book pages that match today’s instruments.
  • UPDATED: Increased discussions on the changes in reference systems.
  • NEW: Discussion on planning a ground-based laser-scanning survey.
  • NEW: Discussion on the landxml format to exchange mapping files.
  • REVISED: Discussion on point codes in field-to-finish surveying.
  • EXTENDED: Coverage on errors present in electronic distance measurements.
  • NEW: Introduction to mobile mapping systems.
• Several sections on machine control, localization of GPS surveys, and construction staking using GPS are included.
• Coverage of both automatic and digital levels for elevation determination.
• An appendix on Introduction to Matrices.