C. C. J. M. Tiberius (Author), H. van der Marel (Author), René Reudink (Author), Freek van Leijen (Author), Open Textbook Library (Distributor)
This book provides an introduction, at academic level, into the field of surveying and mapping. The book has been compiled based on hand-outs and readers written for the third-year course Surveying and Mapping, in the bachelor program Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology. This book covers a wide range of measurement techniques, from land surveying, GPS/GNSS and remote sensing to the associated data processing, the underlying coordinate reference systems, as well as the analysis and visualization of the acquired geospatial information
eBook, 2021
English
TU Delft Open, [Place of publication not identified], 2021
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