1-day Traverse Practical

This full day practical course takes you from setting up over a nail in the field through to producing a fully adjusted set of primary control points. You will collect real raw data, assess its quality, process it manually, distribute error correctly and validate your final results.

Who It Is Suitable For:

• Site engineers
• Setting out engineers
• Surveyors
• Engineers responsible for control and quality assurance checks
• Anyone who wants to properly understand traverse measurement from first principles

No advanced surveying or maths knowledge is required.

Learning objectives

• By the end of the day you will be able to:
• Set up over a nail using best practice techniques
• Establish and measure a full traverse in the field
• Collect and record raw angle and distance data
• Perform manual traverse calculations
• Assess angular and linear misclosure
• Evaluate the accuracy of your results
• Distribute the error
• Produce a full set of adjusted primary control coordinates
• Validate results independently of specialist software