SCOPE AND

CLASSIFICATION OF
PROPERTY SURVEYING
ALIENATION

• is the voluntary act of an owner of some property to dispose of the

property.
SCOPE OF PROPERTY SURVEYS
ARTICLE XII NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PATRIMONY SECTION 2 OF THE 1987
PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION

• All lands of the public domain, waters, minerals, coal, petroleum, and other
mineral oils, all forces of potential energy, fisheries, forests or timber, wildlife,
flora and fauna, and other natural resources are owned by the State. With the
exception of agricultural lands, all other natural resources shall not be alienated
PUBLIC DOMAIN

1. Agricultural
2. Forest
3. Timber
4. Mineral Lands
5. Natural Parks
• Alienable lands of the public domain shall be limited to agricultural lands.
• Private corporations or associations may not hold such alienable lands of the
public domain except by lease, for a period not exceeding 25 years, renewable for
not more than 25 years, and not to exceed 1000 hectares in area.
• Citizens of the Philippines may lease not more than 500 hectares, or acquire not
more than 12 hectares thereof, by purchase, homestead, or grant.
CLASSIFICATION OF LAND SURVEY

the survey of lands used for agricultural, residential, industrial, commercial,

resettlement and other similar purposes shall be divided into three (3) groups.
CLASSIFICATION OF LAND SURVEY

• (1) Isolated Land Surveys

• (2) Cadastral Land Surveys
• (3) Geodetic Surveys
ISOLATION LAND SURVEY

• These shall be comprised of all classes of surveys of

isolated parcels of land used for agricultural, residential,
commercial, resettlement, or other purposes covering
areas not more than 1,500 hectares.
ISOLATED LAND SURVEY

• Public Land Surveys - All original surveys of lands of the public domain classified as alienable or
disposable pursuant to the provisions of the public land laws
• Private Land Surveys - All original surveys of lands claimed or owned by individuals, partnership,
corporations, or any other form of organization, undertaken for use in original land registration
proceedings pursuant to the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 1529 otherwise known as Property
Registration Decree. It includes subdivision, consolidation/subdivision of decreed, patented, or titled
properties.
• Government Land Surveys - All original surveys of lands administered by or belonging to the National
Government or any of its branches pursuant to the provisions of Friar Lands Act No. 1120, as amended;
Act 1 No. 3038; or similar acts which may hereafter be enacted
ISOLATED LAND SURVEY

• Conversion Surveys - All surveys converting graphical cadastral lots into numerical
cadastral lots, computed and plotted in the system of the cadastral project.
• Other Land Surveys - All surveys made for the purpose of determining political
boundaries, verifying or relocating prior surveys, delimiting alienable and disposable
areas, forestlands, parks and other protected areas, ancestral claims, watersheds,
reservations, foreshore land; determining the geographic coordinates, establishing
location monuments and triangulation stations, locating roads and streets, easements, and
any other survey work not included in the preceding classes.
CADASTRAL LAND SURVEY

• Cadastral land surveys shall comprise all surveys of extensive areas

consisting of several lots for cadastral registration proceedings,
agricultural development, or for any purpose.
GEODETIC SURVEYS

• Geodetic surveys shall comprise all surveys of extensive areas

that take into account the curvature of the earth. This shall be
made for the purpose of determining the geographic positions of
reference points of cadastral projects and other expansive
isolated surveys.
CONTROL SURVEY

• This type of survey shall refer to the survey conducted to determine the horizontal and
vertical positions of points that will form part of a geodetic network or project controls
over an area that will subsequently become the basis in determining the rectangular
coordinates in an area.
• the control survey is classified into a project control survey and geodetic control survey.
GEODETIC CONTROL SURVEY

• shall refer to the surveys conducted covering extensive areas

that consider the curvature and the geoid-spheroidal shape of
the earth at sea level to establish a basic network of reference
points, cover the first and second-order controls.
GEODETIC CONTROL SURVEY

• The conduct of the survey shall start from an established PRS 92 control point and shall
end at another PRS 92 control point (check base) for checking purposes.
• To ensure their correctness, the following shall be taken into consideration: a. The
baseline length for the Primary Geodetic Network (First and Second Order) shall be
under the nominal space as provided for Section 28, DA0 2007-29.
• 1st order - 50 kilometers
• 2nd order - 25 kilometers
GEODETIC CONTROL SURVEY

• the Secondary Geodetic Network (3rd and 4th Order), the following shall apply:
• 3rd order - 5 kilometers
• 4th order - variable (each Barangay shall have at least a pair of Control Points not more
than 2 kilometers apart)
PROJECT CONTROL SURVEY

• shall refer to the surveys conducted to establish the positions of

points of reference for projects with a limited geographic
coverage such as a municipality, a large isolated tract of land, a
group settlement, a barangay, or group of municipalities,
covering primary control (third-order), secondary control
(fourth-order) and tertiary control.
ACTIVITY 1

• Why is the constitution important?

• How are land laws different from the constitution?
• What do you think is the importance of classifying surveys into different categories?
ACTIVITY 2

• How do the Philippine surveyors conduct control surveys?

• What makes control surveys different from cadastral and isolated surveys?