TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT AND SURFACE CHAINING FOR CADASTRAL PURPOSES

Abstract

The measurement of the temperature of a measuring band or bar has always been a major problem. A considerable a.mount of experimentation has been done on the morepreciseaspects of survey measurement, and attempts, ranging from packing measuring bars in ice to bimetallic apparatus, made to reduce temperature errors. At the present time electro-resistance thermometers are being used and an entire new field is being investigated using various waves for distance measurement. For at least some time in the future, however, these new techniques will not be sufficiently developed to be of practical or economic use to the cadastral surveyor. Nevertheless very much less interest is taken in what may be termed “bread and butter” procedures.