DISRUPTIVE TRENDS IN SURVEYING

By Jahn Rey Bautista

How things become a disruptive to a thing?

Not too long ago since my traineeship in one of the surveying firms in Butuan City
owned by once a top in the Geodetic Engineering Licensure Exam, I learned a lot from
him not just in mere handling of clients with their problems in properties but also the
laws and trends we future engineers has to face in the workplace. So, lets flip the table,
as if we are on project that requires output. But the real twist is that it shouldn’t just be
an output that would help some stakeholders, agency under the project or a project
itself. The future generation is at stake to it. Like that project shouldn’t just be accurate,
but precise. So, if this project is under the hand of Geodetic Engineers or a survey
team, and this project would be establishing a new cadastral map one thing that would
literally squeeze their brains until the juices comes out is planning. Planning which is the
crucial part for us in every project we do where questions and ideas will be scrutinize
until one left uneliminated. This is the idea I just plucked out of my mind where I
considered technologies a disruptive trend despite its contribution to making things a lot
convenient and faster as it makes planning takes a lot of time compared to the way
surveyors do surveying before when they just have one instrument like the transit. Now
that we have total station which is an advanced version of the transit and is a digital-
based instrument and an RTK GNSS which uses satellites both have similarities in the
ability to render reliable data and might yield a positive output out of the precision. But
their pros and cons are by far the most challenging idea to which among the two
advanced surveying instrument should we choose from. This is basically a factor that
would hassle the planners to go on a project and make it done in a short period of time.
I heard from an experienced engineer that handled a project in cadastral surveying once
that choosing what is the appropriate technology is one of the disruptive trends in
surveying since technology advancement counterfeit the traditional one. And this is also
what I found in diving into the abyss of information.