Types and Branches of Surveying

BRANCHES OF SURVEYING
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Cadastral Survey - Are usually closed surveys which are under taken in urban or rural locations for the purpose of determining the property lines, boundaries, corners and areas. City Survey - are surveys of the areas and near the city for the purpose of planning, expansion or improvement. Construction Survey - Undertaken at a construction site to provide data for preparing plans and specifications. Forestry Survey - executred in connection to forest management. Hydrographic Survey - reffer to surveying streams, lakes, harbors or bodies of waters important to navigatio and building od dams, canals, irrigations and facilities. Industrial Survey - sometimes known as optical tooling, it refers to surveying areas possible to construction of industrial plants/building. Mine Survey - refers to surveying in determining the position of all underground activities. Photogrammetric Survey - type of survey which makes use of photographtaken with cameras either in the air or in the ground.

Route Survey - the survey of possible location of highways, bridges, tunnels, railroads, etc. Topographic Survey - made for the location of elevation of nautal or man-made terrain, it also determine the location of plane.