I'm new to this forum and the field of surveying. Although I come from and work with an arch, RE, and construction background, I knew (know) next to nothing about surveying. A project that we're now engineering afforded me a tangent to learn, so I dove in. I thought I'd share some resources that have been helpful.
Total Beginner - Online surveying lecture videos
40 or so hour+ long lectures starting from what's a map and building from there. The a/v quality isn't stellar, and took some getting used to.
Technical - Leica white papers
Amazing how much effort and expertise goes into Leica's manuals and white papers, and the clarity in which they present dense information. Although I went a Trimble route, reading these papers sort of make me wish I bought into their ecosystem of brainiacs.
Pretty Freaking Cool - Army surveying field manuals
And much more - I think you only getting a few clicks before it asks you to pay, but there's a whole Army organizational and field manual that's worth a look.
-Mike
Above links didn't post (I guess it says new member and won't allow it), so google:
1 - bharat lohani surveying lectures
2 - leica white papers
3 - global security army field manuals (and scroll or search the page down to surveying - only 5 clicks until free preview ends)
Howdy Mike J.
Glad you have found your way here.
Appears that you have become a Survey Junkie.
I believe that most everyone here has been there, it will probably grow before it sets in for life.
Search around your area and find a survey crew that will allow you to follow around a day here and a day there to see them in action.
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BTW, you will need to hang around long enough and post a certain amount of times before you are able to post links and images.
http://www.publications.usace.army.mil/USACEPublications/EngineerManuals.aspx
Your post indicates you were accessing USACE publications through a commercial site. Why not the link above and go to the official site?
Do a search for NAVSTAR on the link above and you will find a useful but dated manual on using GPS.
GeeOddMike, post: 363735, member: 677 wrote: Do a search for NAVSTAR on the link above and you will find a useful but dated manual on using GPS.
If you search "surveying" you will get a manual of control and topo as well as the NAVSTAR Manual. Some other good stuff, also.
Don't forget the NGS site, especially Bill Hemmings book on Single Base GPS-RTK.
Someone linked once to some training videos on, for instance, how to set up an instrument. Wow....they were absolutely clueless on good setting-up techniques. I'm sure that's nothing to do with the lectures you are referring to. But sometimes some of these professors don't necessarily have practical experience. I might check out this bharat lohani guy, though.