APPENDIX IIISAMPLE SURVEY FIELD NOTESThe field notes contained in this Appendix arepresented to show you, the EA2 survey party chief orthe EA1 supervisor, how a series of notes are indexedand arranged in a field notebook For completeness, thefield notes shown in appendix V of the EA3 TRAMANare repeated in this Appendix.The field notes in this Appendix are samples of thetypes of notes that are kept in surveying. They are notintended to describe how the notes should be kept. Thatis up to you. You are the one who decides what minimuminformation is necessary to achieve complete notes, andyou are the one who decides how that information is tobe recorded. As you are well aware, note keeping is notonly an art that makes your notes clean and legible butit is also a science that makes your notes meaningful andcorrect.Figures AIII-1 and AIII-2 are samples of the frontpage and index of a notebook. The front page should befilled out as required by your unit. A separate bookshould, when possible, be kept for each major project.The index should show all surveying projects by pagenumber and must be kept up-to-date at all times.An example of recording horizontal measurementsis shown in figure AIII-3. To record taping problems,record distance measured (by parts of tapes, ifmeasured) going from one station to the next. Recordin the direction in which measured; that is, down forforward measurements, up for backward measure-ments.A page check of a direct-level circuit is shown infigure AIII-4. As you recall, when page checking youare determining that the difference between the sum ofthe backlights and the sum of the forsights is equal tothe difference in elevation between the initialbenchmark or turning point and the final benchmark orturning point. For direct-level notes exceeding one page,the page check should always be made for each separatepage of the notes. The final page should, in addition,show also a check from start to finish of the entirecircuit. Remember, too, that when making a page check,you are checking only the accuracy of the arithmetic,not the accuracy of the level shots.Figure AIII-5 shows horizon closure for a traversestation. In this example, each angle was repeated twice,once direct and once reverse, using the procedures youstudied in chapter 13 of the EA3 TRAMAN formeasuring angles by repetition.Turn all angles, direct and reverse, to the right.Enter means, and if mean does not match single readingto ±30", reshoot the angles. Never proceed to the nextstation until horizon closure (360° ±30") has beenachieved.Figures AIII-6 and AIII-7 show, respectively, notesfor a station-angle traverse and a deflection-angletraverse.Figure AIII-1.—Front page of a notebook.AIII-1
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