SURVEY FIELD PROCEDURES MANUAL Prepared By …

1 SURVEY FIELD PROCEDURES MANUALP repared ByTHE DIVISION OF PLATS AND SURVEYSMARYLAND STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATIONR evised and Edited November,2001 TABLE OF CONTENTSPage1-00 GENERAL1-01 IntroductionA. Definition of Surveying Importance of Surveying Purpose of MANUAL Scope of MANUAL OrganizationA. Division of Plats and Surveys Duties and Responsibilities Public and Internal RelationsA. General Relations With the Public Relations with Property Owners Internal Relations SafetyA. Introduction Safety MANUAL Responsibilities Accident/Injury ReportsA.

2 General Work Related Injuries and Illness Motor Vehicle Accident VehiclesA. General Safety Misuse Security Purchases of Petroleum Products,Service and Parts Preventive Maintenance Program CommunicationsA. General Telephone Mobile Radio System Work Hours and TravelA. General Definitions Work Hours Lodging Meal Allowance Mileage Reports and RecordsA.

3 Daily Report Card Party Chief's Diary Project Card Employee LeaveA. General Requesting Leave Unscheduled Absences Lateness Annual Leave Personal Leave Sick Leave Employee Leave Bank / Leave DonationProgram Leave Without Pay SURVEY EQUIPMENT2-01 ControlA. Technical Supervisor and DivisionProcurement Officer Party Chief GPS Technician Care of EquipmentA. General Total Station Instruments Automatic Levels (Self-Leveling) Tripods Level Rods Tapes Miscellaneous Equipment and Tools Equipment Storage in Vehicles SURVEY Party EquipmentA.

4 General Routine Needs Intermittent Needs 2-04 Leveling Instruments and RodsA. Policy Automatic Levels (Self Leveling) Dumpy Levels Level Rods Angle and Distance Measuring InstrumentsA. General Theodolites Electronic Distance MeasuringInstruments (EDMI) Total Station Instruments TapesA. General Steel Tapes Non-Metallic Tapes 2-07 Hand-Held SURVEY EquipmentA. Computers/Calculators Compasses Hand Level Tripods Metal Detectors Abney Level (Clinometer) Paravant Data Collector and PeripheralsA.

5 Disk Operating system (DOS) Special Functions Paravant Configuration RHC44E Commands Diconix 180si Printer CMT Disk Drive Ramcard Batteries Trouble Shooting Tribrachs, Prisms, Prism PolesA. Tribrachs Prisms Poles SURVEY DATUMS AND THE MARYLAND COORDINATE SYSTEMPage3-01 Horizontal DatumA. Shape of the Earth Position on the Earth Azimuths North American Datum of 1983 (1991 Adj) 3-02 Vertical DatumA. General Policy Gravity National Geod.

6 Vertical Datum of 1988 Local Datums Maryland Coordinate SystemA. Policy General Description of the Grid The Lambert Conformal Projection Conversion of Ground Distances toGrid Distances ERRORS AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF ACCURACY4-01 Accuracy and PrecisionA. Accuracy Precision Accuracy Versus Precision Significant Figures Errors - Definition, Types, and SourcesA. General Blunders Errors 4-03 Classifications of AccuracyA. Policy FIELD PROCEDURES Reasons for Standards and ProceduresSpecifications Classes of Accuracy to Be Used SURVEYING PROCEDURES Page5-01 Linear MeasurementA.

7 General Taping Electronic Distance Measuring Stadia Angles and Angular MeasurementA. General Procedure Errors, Correction and Precautions Vertical MeasurementsA. General Indirect Vertical Measurement Control Monument SettingA. General Reconnaissance Mark Setting Mark Descriptions TYPES OF SURVEYS6-01 TraversesA. General Traverse Specifications Traverse Program Topography SurveysA. General Precision Methods Scope and Topographic Features Cross-Section SurveysA.

8 General Controls and Accuracy Requirements Notes (Conventional) Section Program Data Collection Surveys PageA. General Setup PROCEDURES ETSC Program Shutting Down the Collector Tips For Collection Various Features Surveying for Rights of WayA. General Metes and Bounds Surveys Right-of-Way Stakeouts Global Positioning System (GPS) SurveysA. General Basic Principles of GPS FIELD PROCEDURES 6-07 Photogrammetry SurveysA.

9 General FIELD PROCEDURES Centerline StakeoutsA. General PROCEDURES Construction StakeoutsA. General PROCEDURES Boring StakeoutsA. General PROCEDURES Hydraulic SurveysA. General PROCEDURES Traffic Signalization SurveysA. General FIELD PROCEDURES Borrow Pit Surveys PageA. General Preliminary Cross-sections Final Cross-sections Electrification SurveysA.

10 General SURVEY Requirements Safety Requirements Geodetic Leveling SurveysA. General Geodetic Leveling Definitions Wild 2002 Collimation Test andAdjustment Entering Project Data Into Verrec Beginning a Section Section Running Ending a Section Re-establishment of Old BaselinesA. General Recovery of Existing Control andReference Points Traverse Set-up of Base Line NOTEKEEPING7-01 Purpose and ImportanceA. Purpose Importance Definition Elements of NotesA.