Surveying

Current and Future Advances in Surveying

The role of a surveyor is now extremely significant. A growing number of disciplines including mapping, navigation, and Global Positioning Systems concern the modern surveyor. Advanced surveying techniques are more accurate, faster, and reliable than...

How to Find the Distance Between Any Two Places

Finding the distance between your house to your friend's house in the next block is always easy, but the approach that you use to calculate the distance between two places holds true only to a certain extent. So what's the right approach?

Fundamentals Of Surveying

Surveying is an important discipline in civil engineering that is intimately associated with a large number of facilities, including railways, roads, dams, bridges, and residential areas. Surveying creates the legal geographical boundaries and provides...

Reading a US Geological Survey Map

We are more used to maps that indicate roads, towns and other details required for our travel or information. Geological survey maps indicate a number of details including what the engineer is likely to face below the ground.

Land Surveying in the Bible

Some bible verses and land surveying are like Proverbs 22:28 “Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.” Bible references to land surveying indicate importance given to this to form records, distribute lands, and maintain...

Surveying Forest Land

Vast areas of forests are surveyed by conducting sample surveys in limited areas which are then extrapolated to the entire area. This however requires very careful assessment of the overall area to see that the statistics obtained are meaningful.

Land Surveying Techniques

Possession of land has been and even now is a very important part of the lives of everyone in this world. Irrespective of the fact surveying took place to find out which tribe possessed which forest or the limits of most important cities, the history...

Concepts of Height Measurement in Surveying

Height concepts in surveying are generally linked to a datum which is quite often the sea level in that region. Orthometric and geopotential are other concepts of height that are also used.

The History of Cadastral Surveying

A cadastral survey of any piece of land would include complete details of the land, its dimensions, location, ownership, and cultivation. The survey serves as a complete land record that is a valid legal document. Such surveys have a long history and...

Different Types of Surveying Equipment Available in the Market

Surveying equipment provide various options to a surveyor for acquiring accurate measurements quickly and easily. The article describes the various types of surveying equipment, both ancient and modern, that are available in the market today.