Self Study: Traverse Area
Problem (1)
What is the area of the traverse below? If the traverse precision was 1/11,300, what is the area's expected error?
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Problem (2)
The owner of the parcel shown below hired a surveyor to determine the parcel area.
The surveyor was unable to run a simple loop traverse through the four property corners due to various obstructions. Instead, she created and measured a crossing-loop traverse (shown in blue). In addition to the parcel corners, additional points were needed to work the traverse around the obstructions.
Reducing the field measurements resulted in a 1/17,300 traverse precision. The traverse was adjusted by the Compass Rule and coordinates were computed.
| Point | North (ft) | East (ft) |
| A | 600.000 | 1,000.000 |
| B | 569.612 | 1,293.788 |
| C | 254.542 | 1,209.288 |
| D | 463.631 | 766.846 |
| E | 470.303 | 397.969 |
| F | 97.543 | 566.876 |
What is the parcel area and its expected error?
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