Plane Surveying

Definition of Plane survey :

The type of survey in which curvature of earth is not taken into account,as the survey is extend over small areas, is known as the plane Survey.

• This is called  plane survey because the Earth’s surface is considered to be Plane in this kind of Survey.

• The line connecting any two points will be the straight line and the angles thus formed are also plane angles.

• It therefore involves knowledge of Geometry and plane trigonometry.

• The accuracy required for this type of survey is comparatively low as compare to Geodetic surveying.

• American Surveyors put the limit of 250 sq km for treating Survey as a plane survey.

• However degree of precision is also very important.

• If high precision is required then the survey should be Geodetic otherwise for low precision we can prefer plane survey.