AY Honors/Land Surveying/Requirements/es

Agrimensura

Nivel de destreza

2

Año

2023

Version

04.11.2024

Autoridad de aprobación

División Norteamericana

1. ¿Qué es la agrimensura?

2. Identificar y tener una comprensión básica del propósito de los siguientes equipos topográficos:

a. Trípode

b. Nivele y nivel de tránsito óptico

c. Teodolito

d. Plomada

e. Arandelas y clavos

f. Varilla de nivelación

g. Cinta métrica

h. Cuaderno de campo

i. Estación total

j. Marcar con bandera, marcadores topográficos y pintura marcadora

3. Conocer los conceptos básicos para llevar y registrar en un cuaderno de campo de topografía.

4. Demostrar la conversión de las unidades de medida topográficas a otras unidades:

a. Longitud: cadena de ingeniero (Ramsden), pie, furlong, cadena de agrimensor (Gunter), kilómetro, link, metro, milla, rod (perch o pole) y yarda

b. Superficie: acre, hectárea y milla cuadrada

5. Demostrar su capacidad para aproximar distancias recorriendo una distancia de más de 100 pies (30 m) y tener una precisión del 5 %.

6. Identificar el sistema topográfico o la adaptación que prevalece en su área. Hacer una de las siguientes:

a.

Demonstrate your understanding of the surveying system or adaptation that is prevalent in your area by reading a legal property description in your area and drawing the subject property to scale.

b.

Be able to answer and complete the following about the Public Land Survey System (PLSS):

• What are Principal Meridian Lines and Base Lines?
• What are Township Lines and Range Lines?
• What is a Township?
• What is a Section? How many are in each township? Know the method used to identify a section.
• Sketch the numbering of sections in a PLSS grid (or adaptation as used in your location).
• Demonstrate your ability to locate any parcel within a section.

7.

Interview a licensed land surveyor and learn about the role of a surveyor, types of projects that they work on, types of equipment that they use, and what it took to become licensed.

a.

Demonstrate your understanding of the surveying system or adaptation that is prevalent in your area by reading a legal property description in your area and drawing the subject property to scale.

b.

Research the rules and laws in your area to determine the process to become a licensed professional land surveyor in your area. What activities require that one be a licensed professional land surveyor?

8.

Demonstrate your ability to use surveying equipment, keep good survey notes and establish an elevation by working as a 2 to 4-person survey crew to set 5 benchmarks at a minimum distance of not less than 50-feet apart (15 m), and close your circuit within +/- 1 inch (2.5 cm).

9.

The Bible contains many references to surveying. Answer the following questions about "spiritual surveying":

a.

All surveying starts with a good benchmark as a point of beginning or initial point. Who is our initial point / point of beginning? Discuss how we as Christians are all connected back to the "initial point."

b.

Find a verse in the Bible that talks about a corner stone "initial point."

c.

Plumb lines are mentioned several times in the Bible. Find two examples and discuss why its mention is important.

d. Buscar dos versículos en la Biblia que mencionen los límites de terrenos y hablar acerca de la importancia de los límites en los tiempos bíblicos y en nuestras vidas hoy.