In order to establish a good land-atmosphere interaction, greenhouse gas fluxes, ecosystem health, and availability of food, fiber, and energy for human populations, land cover is required and should be rendered as a crucial part of the earth’s ecosystem. And this why surveyors carry out surveys on land to determine help property owners understand the condition of their land and features.
Land Surveying: This is basically the art and science of mapping and measuring land. The entire scope actually boils down to calculate, location of land boundaries. The absence of Land survey services would have led to a city or community without railroads, skyscrapers could not have been erected, and neither would any individual have put fences around their yards to avoid trespassing on their land.
types of Land Survey:
(a) Topographic survey: This is for depicting the (hills, valleys, mountains, rivers, etc) and manmade features (roads, houses, settlements ) on the surface of the earth.
(b) Cadastral survey: is used to determining property boundaries including those of fields, houses, plots of land, etc.
(c) Engineering survey: is used to acquire the required data for the planning, design, and Execution of engineering projects like roads, bridges, canals, dams, railways, buildings, etc.
(d) City surveys: The surveys involving the construction and development of towns including roads, drainage, water supply, sewage street network, etc. And are generally referred to as city surveys. (2)
(e) Marine or Hydrographic Survey: Those are surveys of large water bodies for navigation, tidal monitoring, the construction of harbors, etc.
(f) Astronomical Survey: Astronomical survey uses the observations of the heavenly bodies (sun, moon, stars, etc. to fix the absolute locations of places on the surface of the earth.
The various range of technology equipment’s for land surveying at Geoinfotech includes can be categorized as follows:
- Surface positioning equipment
- Geophysical equipment
- Motion Sensors
- Hydrographic equipment
- Oceanographic instrumentation
