ppt课件-a long historyof surveying-acls（很长一段历史surveying-acls）.pptVIP

Most images have been provided by Ken Allred, ALS, CLS and Patrick Ringwood, BCLS, CLS A History of Surveying Cadastral Plan - Mesopatamia - 1700 BC The Rope Stretchers The Pyramids Pythagoras Flooding of the Nile Early cadastral records to 3400 BC Early Egyptian Civilization Compass developed Chinese invention - south pointing spoon (lodestone) Used as a divining tool in the practice of feng shui Magnetized needles used as direction pointers in the 8th century AD in China Ca. 850 and 1050 common as marine navigational aids 1st Century – 11th Century Leonard Digges Invented the Theodolite - England 1571 The Sextant - 1730 Samuel de Champlain Peter Fidler David Thompson Captain James Cook Early Explorers Samuel de Champlain 1608 Samuel de Champlain Philip Turnor Peter Fidler Lake Athabasca - 1791 From the book: Canada’s Forgotten Surveyor by Peter Fidler David Thompson Columbia River 1806 David Thompson Peter Fidler Elk Point, Alberta From the ALS News Magazine Technological Revolution 1950 Geodimeter Tellurometer 1970 Desk Top Computer Total Stations 1990 Geographic Information Systems Satellite Positioning Systems 2000 High Resolution Imagery * Introduction: Purpose Varied Career Outdoors Technical Dealing with people Legal Artistic Varied Employment Private Practice Industry – Resources - Construction Government Education Public Service * * Fresco in the Tomb of Menna – Thebes, Egypt 2000 BC * 3/4/5 triangle 6th Century BC * Compass was not initially used to tell direction until the 9th century Compasses were used as survey instruments on this continent until the mid 19th century. Even in the last century they were used for rough measurements. * * * Sextant, chronometer, compass – mostly used astronomical observations * Champlain and his astrolabe – Nepean Point - Ottawa * Peter Fidler – Canada’s Forgotten Surveyor – James MacGregor * David Thompson and Peter Fidler were cohor