SURVEYING THE STATE-OF-THE ART

Abstract

Surveying has been a focal point of evolution in technology. It is developing day by day comprising both the science and techniques. It becomes an important tool of planning and decision making in human life; engineering, geology, agriculture, security and defense, health are a few of the many. Surveying requires management and decision making in deciding the appropriate methods and instrumentation required to complete the task satisfactorily to the specified accuracy and within the time limits available. The aim of this research work is to review the different specialization of surveying that immerged from the conventional definition, represent the relationship between different branches of surveying, and to review number of modern survey technologies available today. It obviously found that in spite of the different branches of surveying, the base remains the same. Different sciences relay largely on survey information, so it becomes integrated science. Satellite technology becomes an important tool in surveying. Moreover, the term of surveying itself become unable to cover all responsibilities. To overcome this short coming, the term of, geomatics, arises as a substitute term.