Types and methods[edit]

 Photogrammetry, a method of collecting information using aerial photography and satellite

images
 Cadastral surveyor, used to document land ownership, by the production of documents,
diagrams, plats, and maps
o Dominion Land Survey, the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one-
square-mile sections for agricultural and other purposes
o Public Land Survey System, a method used in the United States to survey and
identify land parcels
o Survey township, a square unit of land, six miles (~9.7 km) on a side, done by the
U.S. Public Land Survey System
 Construction surveying, the locating of structures relative to a reference line, used in the
construction of buildings, roads, mines, and tunnels
 Deviation survey, used in the oil industry to measure a borehole's departure from the vertical
 Archaeological field survey, the collection of information by archaeologists prior to
excavation