Adjustment Computations
Statistics and Least Squares in Surveying GIS
3rd Edition
Published on 5. February 1997
Book
Hardback
584 pages
978-0-471-16833-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines every aspect of least square adjustment. It defines terms and introduces readers to the fundamentals of errors and describes methods for analyzing them. It also illustrates the application of least squares in adjusting a wide range of survey types and provides detailed coverage of applications of least squares to GPSs and GISs.
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Series
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
936 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-16833-1 (9780471168331)
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PAUL R. WOLF, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin, is the author of Elements of Photogrammetry and the bestselling Elementary Surveying, now in its ninth edition. CHARLES D. GHILANI, PhD, is Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Chair of the Surveying Program at Pennsylvania State University.
Content
Partial table of contents:; Measurements and Their Analysis.; Random Error Theory.; Confidence Intervals and Statistical Testing.; Propagation of Random Errors in Indirectly Measured Quantities.; Error Propagation in Angle and Distance Measurements.; Error Propagation in Traverse Surveys.; Weights of Observations.; Principles of Least Squares.; Adjustment of Level Nets.; Precisions of Indirectly Determined Quantities.; Adjustment of Horizontal Surveys: Trilateration.; Adjustment of Horizontal Surveys: Triangulation.; Adjustment of Horizontal Surveys: Traverses and Networks.; Adjustment of GPS Networks.; Error Ellipse.; Blunder Detection in Horizontal Survey Networks.; General Least--Squares Method and Its Application to Curve Fitting and Coordinate Transformations.; Computer Optimization.; Appendices.; Bibliography.; Index.