Surveyors measure land and mark its boundaries. However, the job of a surveyor is much more specialised than this routine chore. Apart from measuring the borders of land, surveyors undertake several other complicated works like mapping deep ocean floors, monitoring environmental changes and subsequent hazards, etc. They use computer imaging technologies and satellite links also during the course of their work. The good old surveyor who used ordinary instruments to measure your backyard has long gone. There are several specialisations in the field of the modern surveyor. Cadastral Survey, Engineering Survey, Mining Survey, Hydrographic Survey, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems, Archaeology, Geodesy and Forensics are the various fields in surveying today. In spite of all these fancy technologies, the fundamentals of surveying, known as Land Information, remain the backbone of the survey field. (more…)