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Local attraction
View on WikipediaWhile compass surveying, the magnetic needle is sometimes disturbed from its normal position under the influence of external attractive forces. Such a disturbing influence is called as local attraction.[1] The external forces are produced by sources of local attraction which may be current carrying wire (magnetic materials) or metal objects.[2] The term is also used to denote amount of deviation of the needle from its normal position. It mostly causes errors in observations while surveying and thus suitable methods are employed to negate these errors.[3]
Sources
[edit]The sources of local attraction may be natural or artificial. Natural sources include iron ores or magnetic rocks while as artificial sources consist of steel structures, iron pipes, current carrying conductors. The iron made surveying instruments such as metric chains, ranging rods and arrows should also be kept at a safe distance apart from compass.[3]
Detection
[edit]Local attraction at a place can be detected by observing bearings from both ends of the line in the area. If fore bearing and back bearing of a line differ exactly by 180°, there is no local attraction at either station. But if this difference is not equal to 180°, then local attraction exists there either at one or both ends of the line.[3]
Remedies
[edit]There are two common methods of correcting observed bearings of the lines taken in the area affected by Local Attraction. The first method involves correcting the bearing with the help of corrected included angles and the second method involves correcting the bearing of traverse from one correct bearing ( in which difference between fore bearing and back bearing is exactly equal to 180°) by the process of distribution of error to other bearings.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Surveying, Volume 1 by B.C. Punmia and Ashok Kumar Jain. Chapter: Compass Surveying
- ^ "Surveying" by S. K. Duggal available on Google books
- ^ a b c "Compass Surveying" by C. L. Kocher, Principal of Mehar Chand Polytechnic College, Jalandhar City, Punjab
- ^ Surveying by B.C. Punmia "Compass Surveying"
Local attraction
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Definition
Local attraction refers to the deviation of a magnetic compass needle from its normal position due to the influence of nearby magnetic fields, resulting in erroneous directional readings during surveying or navigation activities.[1] This disturbance arises when external magnetic materials interfere with the needle's alignment, preventing it from accurately pointing toward the magnetic north. The phenomenon specifically impacts the horizontal component of the Earth's magnetic field, to which the compass needle is responsive in its free rotation within the horizontal plane.[3] As a result, local magnetic influences distort this horizontal component, introducing angular errors in the observed bearings of survey lines or navigational paths. Local attraction is distinct from magnetic declination, which represents the global angular difference between true north and magnetic north at a given location, and from deviation, which stems from inherent magnetic properties within the compass instrument itself.[1] Unlike declination's broader geographic variation or deviation's consistent instrumental bias, local attraction is inherently site-specific, temporary, and caused by proximate external sources.[4] The relationship between observed and true bearings incorporates local attraction as an error component, expressed in the basic equation:Observed bearing = True bearing + Declination + Deviation + Local attraction
(with appropriate signs based on direction: east positive, west negative). This formulation accounts for the cumulative effects on compass readings in magnetic surveying.
