Ludlow Engineering and Land Survey

As we all know surveying is used to measure property area, establishing roads, waterways, pipelines, sewers, maps, charts, etc. It contains measuring elevation difference, angles, and distances. These measurements are used to calculate area, volumes and marking of locations according to some coordinate system. It involves measuring of dimensional relationships between physical attributes, points, lines on the earth surface.
The measurement taken provides us the length, which is in feet or in meters, and direction, which is in azimuth angle to a reference meridian that normally taken as north south direction. Normally, the area to be surveyed have its origin placed at west and south due to which all coordinates are positive in north east quadrant. It involves vertical measurement providing the third dimension to objects position, which is given as distance above surface such as mean sea level also called as datum. This mean sea level is taken as average of low and high tides during lunar month.
IMORTANCE
Land Surveying is very important in improvement of the human environment. Its uses has also spread in field of mapping and establishment of legal boundaries of land ownership, transportation, telecommunications, buildings. It is an important part of planning and implementation of any construction.
In land survey, subdivision plats/maps, registered land surveys, judicial surveys, and space delineation are also certified. Re-establishment of land boundaries and cadastral surveys based on documented records and historical evidence is also included in Land survey. It is also associated with services such as the analysis and utilization of land survey data as well as construction layout surveys, horizontal and vertical control surveys, mapping and related data accumulation, , precision measurements of area, length, elevation, angle, and volume. Land surveying mainly focuses on establishment of property boundaries through inspection, systematic study, study of legal instruments related to property and gathering information through field observations and measurements.
INSTRUMENTS
Now days, instrument such as total station is widely used which is a theodolite having EDM (electronic distant measurement device) used for vertical, horizontal, angular measurements. Earlier, tape for measuring short distances, level for the elevation difference, and theodolite for measuring horizontal and vertical angles along with triangulation were the basic tools used for land surveying. Total stations are no longer dependent on prism or reflector and are automatic, and can e-mail field data to the office computer via GPS (Global Position System). Introduction of the total station has evolved optical-mechanical device to computerized full electronic device. Land Surveying has been totally revolutionized with such modern equipment, and their accuracy, speed.

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Do you or your clients have contaminated real estate where you have to install monitoring wells? Then you must hire a land surveyor that offers environmental land surveying services in your area. A land surveyor that works on environmental projects provides all types of environmental land surveying services to environmental engineers or consultants. Environmental land surveys conducted for the environmental industry include various tasks like monitoring well surveying, geo-tracker reporting, topographic surveys, earth quantity calculations, site map, and/or construction staking. All land surveyors and experts deal with environmental land survey issues related to contaminated real estate sites.

Environmental surveys also include topographic land surveys. The prime purpose of a topographic survey is to gather survey information about the natural as well as man-made features of the land. The topographic land surveyors make three – dimensional maps with the help of their instruments. To complete their topographic survey objectives, environment land surveyors use distinct elements of geometry, engineering, trigonometry, mathematics and physics. A survey shows the location, size, height and the gradual changes in elevation.

Topographic survey also includes the comprehensive analysis and gathering of information through derivative measurements of the field. The technique adheres to the analysis and evaluation of data which supports planning, designing as well as establishment of property lines and boundaries. The survey also includes the re-establishment of cadastral surveys and land boundaries based on documents of record and historical evidences. It generally involves the process of establishing and marking the location of planned improvements, like space delineation, roads, buildings and even sewer lines.

Environmental land surveying may involve connected services like:

Topographic surveys
Mapping and related data accumulation (site map)
Construction layout surveys
Precision measurements of length, angle, elevation, area, and volume
Monitoring well surveys
Geotracker reporting

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Armando Dupont, a professional land surveyor started his career in surveying in 1977 and has extensive experience in managing personnel and projects. Mr. Dupont founded Calvada Surveying, Inc. in 1989 and is a licensed professional land surveyor in the State of California. As an elite land surveying firm, Calvada Surveying, Inc. offers professional land surveying services, including ALTA Surveys, ACSM Surveys, 3D High Definition….

A lot of people ask about land surveys.  Here is a description of what they are, compliments of Wikipedia.  Please enjoy!

Surveying or land surveying is the technique and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually on the surface of the Earth, and they are often used to establish land maps and boundaries for ownership or governmental purposes.

To accomplish their objective, surveyors use elements of geometry, engineering, trigonometry, mathematics, physics, and law .

An alternative definition, per the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), is the science and art of making all essential measurements to determine the relative position of points and/or physical and cultural details above, on, or beneath the surface of the Earth, and to depict them in a usable form, or to establish the position of points and/or details.

Furthermore, as alluded to above, a particular type of surveying known as “land surveying” (also per ACSM) is the detailed study or inspection, as by gathering information through observations, measurements in the field, questionnaires, or research of legal instruments, and data analysis in the support of planning, designing, and establishing of property boundaries. It involves the re-establishment of cadastral surveys and land boundaries based on documents of record and historical evidence, as well as certifying surveys (as required by statute or local ordinance) of subdivision plats/maps, registered land surveys, judicial surveys, and space delineation. Land surveying can include associated services such as mapping and related data accumulation, construction layout surveys, precision measurements of length, angle, elevation, area, and volume, as well as horizontal and vertical control surveys, and the analysis and utilization of land survey data.

Surveying has been an essential element in the development of the human environment since the beginning of recorded history (about 5,000 years ago). It is required in the planning and execution of nearly every form of construction. Its most familiar modern uses are in the fields of transport, building and construction, communications, mapping, and the definition of legal boundaries for land ownership.