Lecture 2 Field Note Book Surveying Field Notes

Lecture 2 Field Note Book

• Surveying Field Notes • • • Required readings: 2 -6 to 2 -11 Suggested readings: 2 -12 to 2 -15 Hand written field notes • • • Office personnel may not be the field surveyors Field notes are legal documents Requirements: • • • Accuracy: most important Integrity: complete, do not erase Legibility Arrangement: forms appropriate to task Clarity: avoid crowded pages, plan in advance, good sketches

• Field Note Rules • Erasures not allowed: cross out and type void • Use a sharp 3 -H pencil: no ball-point, no softer pencil • Originals recorded on site: copies marked : “ copy” • Job not finished in a day: every new day marked “cont” • Must be water proof • We will use a collection of sketches, tables, and descriptions

• Arrangements of Notes • Depend on departmental standards • First left page: a title that may extend to right page, and tables • Right page: • • Project name and location. Date, starting and finishing time. Weather: temperature, wind, visibility, rain, . . Party members with their duties: chief, recorder, observer, rod-person, . . Symbols are ok Instrument type and SN A sketch, north arrow, descriptions, . . Signatures: lower right corner

Note Books, Cont. • • A new day: a new left and right page with all the information updated. “Cont. ” On all the pages. Do not tear off any page. Mention the floor condition: concrete, soft, grass, . . Examples: textbook Appendix B.

Electronic Data Collectors • • • Recommended readings Different types Advantages and disadvantages