List of surveying instruments
Instruments used in surveying include:
- Alidade
- Alidade table
- Cosmolabe
- Dioptra
- Dumpy level
- Engineer's chain
- Geodimeter
- Graphometer
- Groma (surveying)
- Laser scanning
- Level
- Level staff
- Measuring tape
- Plane table
- Pole (surveying)
- Prism (surveying) (corner cube retroreflector)
- Prismatic compass (angle measurement)
- Ramsden surveying instruments
- Ranging rod
- Surveyor's chain
- Surveyor's compass
- Tachymeter (surveying)
- Tape (surveying)
- Tellurometer
- Theodolite
- Half theodolite
- Plain theodolite
- Simple theodolite
- Great theodolite
- Non-transit theodolite
- Transit theodolite
- Seconds theodolite
- Electronic theodolite
- Mining theodolite
- Suspension theodolite
- Traveling theodolite
- Pibal theodolite
- Registering theodolite
- Gyro-theodolite
- Construction theodolite
- Photo-theodolite
- Robotic theodolite
- Vernier theodolite
- Total station
- Transit (surveying)
- Tripod (surveying)
- Universal instrument (surveying)
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Lewis, M. J. T. (2001-04-23). Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511483035. ISBN 978-0-521-79297-4.