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

• Astronomical instrument
• Measurement instrument

Further reading