List of surveying instruments explained

Instruments used in surveying include:

• Alidade
• Alidade table
• Cosmolabe
• Dioptra
• Dumpy level
• Engineer's chain
• Geodimeter
• Graphometer
• Groma (surveying)
• Laser scanning
• Level
• Level staff
• Measuring tape
• Plane table
• Pole (surveying)
• Prism (surveying) (corner cube retroreflector)
• Prismatic compass (angle measurement)
• Ramsden surveying instruments
• Ranging rod
• Surveyor's chain
• Surveyor's compass
• Tachymeter (surveying)
• Tape (surveying)
• Tellurometer
• Theodolite
  • Half theodolite
  • Plain theodolite
  • Simple theodolite
  • Great theodolite
  • Non-transit theodolite
  • Transit theodolite
  • Seconds theodolite
  • Electronic theodolite
  • Mining theodolite
  • Suspension theodolite
  • Traveling theodolite
  • Pibal theodolite
  • Registering theodolite
  • Gyro-theodolite
  • Construction theodolite
  • Photo-theodolite
  • Robotic theodolite
  • Vernier theodolite
• Total station
• Transit (surveying)
• Tripod (surveying)
• Universal instrument (surveying)

See also

See main article: Surveying instruments.

• Astronomical instrument
• Measurement instrument

Further reading

• Book: Lewis, M. J. T. . Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome . Cambridge University Press . 2001-04-23 . 978-0-521-79297-4 . 10.1017/cbo9780511483035.