plane table in English

noun
1
a surveying instrument used for direct plotting in the field, with a drawing board and pivoted alidade.
Using a plane table and alidade to ensure a horizontal surface, they established nine stations, each 3.56 m apart, in a 3 × 3 grid.

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1. Counterflux; plane table; reported; anthraquinone; Benevolist

2. Circa 1725 - Plane Table Alidade circa 1820 -

3. Instruments of Science and Technology - Plane Table Alidade

4. Plane table, Alidade, and wye level - as a set

5. Types of Alidade in plane table surveying 1.Plain Alidade

6. A plane table Alidade is a straight edge with some form of sighting device

7. 15 A sheet of paper or mylar covering the plane table is annotated during map construction.

8. Two types of Alidade are used in plane table surveying, they are plain Alidade and telescopic Alidade

9. What does Alidade mean? An indicator or a sighting apparatus on a plane table, used in angular measurement

10. His techniques in working the alidade and plane table "contributed notably to the effectiveness of mapping rugged mountain areas".

11. Surveyors would place an Alidade on the plane table and sight along it to a particular object, then draw a line to indicate the bearing.

12. The Alidade is mounted on a plane table, which has a sheet of paper on which to draw the map, and an object or location is sighted through the Alidade

13. For the summer of 1894 they attended a M.I.T. field school in the Adirondack Mountains learning to map with an alidade and plane table and to measure stream flow of the Ausable River with various current meters.

14. English: An Alidade (archaic forms include alhidade, alhidad, alidad) is a device that allows the user to sight a distant object and use the line of sight to perform a task.This task can be, for example, to draw a line on a plane table in the direction of the object or to measure the angle to the object from some reference point.