Procedure of Measuring Bearing with Prismatic Compass:

The procedure of measuring bearing with the compass is discussed in this section along with some related issues like compass traversing, local attraction and correction due to local attraction.

Setting the Compass at Station

The prismatic compass is required to be temporarily set over the station at that the bearing of survey line required to be measured. It is basically a two-step procedure. This is also called the temporary adjustments of compass.