Introduction

Advantages and Disadvantages of Total Station

Accessories for total station

Measuring Angles with Total station

Types of Total Stations

Measurement Principle of EDM Instrument

EDM Instrument Characteristics

Error Correction in Electronic Distance Measurements

Prisms Used for Electronic Distance Measurements

Geometry of Electronic Distance Measurements

Focussing and Sighting

Surveying Using Field Equipment

Setting up a Back Sight

Measurement with Total Station

Total Station Initial Setting (General Setting Required for all Models)

Field Book Recording

Radial Shooting

Occupied Point (Instrument Station) Entries

Open and close traversing using total station

Error Sources of Electronic Theodolite

Trigonometric Levelling and Vertical Traversing

Trigonometric Levelling—Field Procedures

Trigonometric Levelling—Error Sources 

Data Collection Operating Procedures

Responsibility of the Field Crew for Data Collection and Processing

Interfacing the Data Collector with a Computer

Digital Transfer of the Data to Application Software

Requirements of a Data Collector

Coding of Field Data While Using a Data Collector

Summary of Data Collector Field-to-Finish Procedures

Surveying procedure when the instrument is setup first time

Shifting the station by aligning to the back point.

Stake out using total station

Steps for operating free station program

Steps for Operating the Reference Line.

Steps for Operating the Tie Distance Program.

Steps for Operating the Area Program.

Remote height program.

Memory initialization or job deletion

Steps For Downloading the Data from TS