List of surveying instruments
Instruments used in surveying include:
- Alidade
 - Alidade table
 - Cosmolabe
 - Dioptra
 - Dumpy level
 - Engineer's chain
 - Geodimeter
 - Graphometer
 - Groma (surveying)
 - Laser scanning
 - Level
 - Level staff
 - Measuring tape
 - Plane table
 - Pole (surveying)
 - Prism (surveying) (corner cube retroreflector)
 - Prismatic compass (angle measurement)
 - Ramsden surveying instruments
 - Ranging rod
 - Surveyor's chain
 - Surveyor's compass
 - Tachymeter (surveying)
 - Tape (surveying)
 - Tellurometer
 - Theodolite
- Half theodolite
 - Plain theodolite
 - Simple theodolite
 - Great theodolite
 - Non-transit theodolite
 - Transit theodolite
 - Seconds theodolite
 - Electronic theodolite
 - Mining theodolite
 - Suspension theodolite
 - Traveling theodolite
 - Pibal theodolite
 - Registering theodolite
 - Gyro-theodolite
 - Construction theodolite
 - Photo-theodolite
 - Robotic theodolite
 - Vernier theodolite
 
 - Total station
 - Transit (surveying)
 - Tripod (surveying)
 - Universal instrument (surveying)
 
See also
Further reading
- Lewis, M. J. T. (2001-04-23). Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511483035. ISBN 978-0-521-79297-4.