The process of surveying land uses a series of precision instruments to measure features such as distance, area and elevation. All of these measurements are important to determine what a parcel of ...

Land ownership and property management involve complex systems and regulations. Understanding the difference between property maps and a survey is key to solving this riddle. While these tools are ...

As the land surveying profession evolves to meet the changing needs of a high-tech world, advances in data collection and computing power support increasing demand for comprehensive geographic ...

Hayden Gower, Victor Rasgado and Nick Kariger, from left, use drones as part of their surveying work at Stantec’s Santa Barbara office. (Sam Goldman / Noozhawk photo) To measure bluff erosion, land ...

As any professional land surveyor knows, we are a part of a great profession. It offers tremendous variety, the chance to work outdoors, the opportunity to apply math and geography skills in the real ...

It’s not virtual reality -- it is reality capture. Nor is the technology exactly new, but it is the future of land surveying, according to professionals at Houston Engineering, who say it is advancing ...

The Naksha initiative seeks to digitize urban land records in India, employing drone surveys and GIS tools to enhance ...

In this series, people from all walks of life offer an inside – and often unfiltered – take on their livelihoods and what keeps them going in their jobs. In this instalment, chief surveyor Soh Kheng ...

“It is important to remember that remote-sensing tools like the one developed in this study cannot replace the field survey ...