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    Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions...
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  • Look up survey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Survey may refer to: Survey (human research), including opinion polls Surveying, the technique and science...
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  • Instruments used in surveying include: Alidade Alidade table Cosmolabe Dioptra Dumpy level Engineer's chain Geodimeter Graphometer Groma (surveying) Laser scanning...
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    benchmarks using a handheld GPS receiver. Broad arrow Geoid Levelling—a surveying technique that uses benchmarks Ordnance datum Spot height "Bench marks...
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  • Civil engineering surveying, a survey of local topographic features for engineering purposes Cadastral surveying, the surveying of specific land parcels to...
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    contribution to hydrographic surveying during much of the rest of the 20th century. So valuable was wire-drag surveying in the United States that for...
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  • standard Quantity Surveying degree and develop Quantity Surveying skills through their own training programmes. The future of quantity surveying lies in embracing...
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  • Construction surveying or building surveying (otherwise known as "staking", "stake-out", "lay-out", or "setting-out") is to provide dimensional control...
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  • method in the field of surveying to establish control networks. It is also used in geodesy. Traverse networks involve placing survey stations along a line...
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    sometimes croma, or gruma in the literature of the republican times) was a surveying instrument used in the Roman Empire. The groma allowed projecting right...
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    Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying)...
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  • Pacing is a reasonably easy and quick method of measuring distance in the field. It is used to measure a distance and is often used with a sighting or...
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    Benchmark (surveying), a surveying mark used as a reference point in measuring altitudes Boundary marker Milestone Triangulation station, a surveying mark used...
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  • Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of real property boundaries....
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  • Surveying in Oceania may refer to: Surveying in Australia Surveying in New Zealand This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Surveying...
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  • The American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) was an American professional association representing the interests of those engaged in measuring...
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    Erie) that serves as a reference line for surveying a grid of property lots. The result of this surveying is the concession road and sideline system...
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    In surveying, a pole is bar made of wood or metal and normally held vertical, upon which different instruments can be mounted: a prism, a GPS device,...
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    effects (due to the design of the survey) and surveying errors. Survey townships are distinct from civil townships. A survey township is used to establish...
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    In surveying, triangulation is the process of determining the location of a point by measuring only angles to it from known points at either end of a...
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    land. In modern land law and surveying a gore is a strip of land, usually triangular in shape, as might be left between surveys that do not close. In some...
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    download them if desired. In 2008 the USGS abandoned traditional methods of surveying, revising, and updating topographic maps based on aerial photography and...
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    Initial applications were mostly professionalized forms such as innovative surveying instruments and agency-level GIS systems tended by experts. By the mid-1990s...
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    surveying is a type of surveying in which the directions of surveying lines are determined with a magnetic compass, and the length of the surveying lines...
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    of which are generally referred to as Cadastral surveying. Construction surveying Construction surveying is generally performed by specialized technicians...
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    navigation satellite system (GNSS) Surveying (including land, cadastral, aerial, mining and engineering surveying) Hydrography Navigation Location-based...
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  • Software tools for surveys are varied, ranging from desktop applications to complex web systems for monitoring consumer behaviour. The tables includes...
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    (1567), which could be used for astrometry, cartography, navigation, and surveying. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public...
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  • creating a geological map or model. Geological surveying employs techniques from the traditional walk-over survey, studying outcrops and landforms, to intrusive...
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  • A paid or incentivized survey is a type of statistical survey where the participants/members are rewarded through an incentive program, generally entry...
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