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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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