ELEMENTARY SURVEYING FIELD MANUAL

 2006

FIELD WORK NO. 8 DETERMINATION OF THE H

COURSE AND SECTION:

SUBMITTED BY:

SN. _ NAME: STUDENT NO.:

GROUP NO. CHIEF OF PARTY:

DATE OF FIELDWORK: DATE OF SUBMISSION: _

SUBMITTED TO:

GRADE
PROFESSOR:

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 GROUP NO. CHIEF OF PARTY:

MEMBERS:

1. 4.
2. 5.
3. 6.

FIELD WORK NO. 8

DETERMINATION OF THE HEIGHT OF A REMOTE POINT

OBJECTIVES:

1. To develop the skills in getting the vertical distance of a certain inaccessible

point using a single vertical plane and using two planes, horizontal and vertical.
2. To apply the knowledge learned in the analysis of right triangles in determining
the height of a remote point.
3. To learn how to read vertical angle of a transit.
4. To have the confidence of working with one’s party or group and to be fully
responsible in the performance of the assigned task.

INSTRUMENTS:

1. Engineer’s transit
2. 1 leveling rod
3. tape
4. chalk/1-set of marking pins
5. range pole
6. reading glass

ORGANIZATION OF PARTY:

1. Chief Of Party (COP)

2. 1 rod man
3. 1 Instrument man
4. 2 tapemen
5. 1 Recorder
PROCEDURE:

A. Determination of the height of a flagpole as the remote point using a

single vertical plane.

1. Set-up the transit at a convenient location and call it point A where one can see
clearly the leveling rod and the topmost part of the flagpole.
2. Using the normal form of the telescope, sight the topmost part of the flagpole.
Record the reading on the vertical circle, call it angle .
3. For the second trial, use inverted telescope to view the remote point. This is done
to determine the index error of the instrument.
4. Get the mean of the two readings and record it as the mean of angle  or the
angle of elevation of the remote point from the first station.
5. Set the leveling rod vertically near the flagpole and level the telescope of the
transit. Sight the reading to get the height of the instrument on its initial location.
6. Move the transit towards the flagpole and call it station B, then measure its
distance from its initial location. Record this as distance AB.
7. After leveling the transit, sight the top of the flagpole twice, again using the
normal and inverted position of the telescope for the two trials. Record the two
vertical angle readings. Determine the mean of the two readings and call it
mean angle
.
8. Level the telescope, and get the height of the instrument by sighting the leveling
rod at the base of the flagpole. This will represent the height of the instrument on
station B.
9. Analyze the two right triangles formed to determine the height of the remote point.

COMPUTATIONS:

The computation of sample field notes is done in accordance with the steps listed
hereunder:

Computation of an the height of the remote point

Determine the difference in elevation between the two instruments set-ups.

Diff ·in   h2  h1
HI

Analyze triangle B’EF, solve for the distance “x” using tangent function.
tan 
h h
 2x 1
Determine the sum of the distance AB and “x” for the analysis of the oblique triangle.
Distance A' F  AB  x

Using sine law in the oblique triangle A’FD, solve for the distance FD.
AB  x 
sin    
FD
sin 
Using the right triangle, FDG, solve for the height of the remote point DG.
sin   H  h2 D
FD

A’  E F G
B’ 

h1h2

A B C
AB x

C. INSTRUMENT SET-UP
PRINCIPLE:

In an oblique triangle the ratio of the length of any side and the sine function of the
angle opposite this side is proportional to the ratio of any other side and the sine
function of the angle opposite this other side.

a b
C  c
b a sin A 
sin sin C
A B
b
c

QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS:

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the breaking the
tape method in measuring the horizontal distance of a sloping terrain?
2. Give other methods of determining the horizontal distance between two points
 PRELIMINARY DATA SHEET

FIELD WORK 8 DETERMINATION OF THE HEIGHT OF A REMOTE POINT

DATE: GROUP NO.

TIME: LOCATION:
WEATHER: PROFESSOR:

ANGLE  MEAN HEIGHT OF MEAN HEIGHT OF

STATION ANGLE  INSTRUMENT INSTRUMENT
A
(TRIAL 1)
A
(TRIAL 2)
MEAN HEIGHT OF MEAN HEIGHT OF
STATION ANGLE 
ANGLE  INSTRUMENT INSTRUMENT
B
(TRIAL 1)
B
(TRIAL 2)

DISTANCE AB= COMPUTED HEIGHT OF

REMOTE POINT:

B. COMPUTATIONS:

C. SKETCH

SIGNATURE OF STUDENT

SIGNATURE OF PROFESSOR
 FINAL DATA SHEET

FIELD WORK 8 DETERMINATION OF THE HEIGHT OF A REMOTE POINT

DATE: GROUP NO.

TIME: LOCATION:
WEATHER: PROFESSOR:

ANGLE  MEAN HEIGHT OF MEAN HEIGHT OF

STATION ANGLE  INSTRUMENT INSTRUMENT
A
(TRIAL 1)
A
(TRIAL 2)
MEAN HEIGHT OF MEAN HEIGHT OF
STATION ANGLE 
ANGLE  INSTRUMENT INSTRUMENT
B
(TRIAL 1)
B
(TRIAL 2)

DISTANCE AB= COMPUTED HEIGHT OF

REMOTE POINT:

D. COMPUTATIONS:

E. SKETCH

SIGNATURE OF STUDENT

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