Survey engineer is a prestigious and demanded profession in Ukraine. There are few good specialists in land management, and the queue for them can be scheduled for several weeks, or even months.
Who is a survey engineer and how does he work?
Land surveyors plan, direct and conduct legal surveys to establish the location of real property boundaries, contours and other natural or human-made features, and prepare and maintain cross-sectional drawings, official plans, records and documents pertaining to these surveys.
The main responsibilities of the land surveyor:
- work with the existing documentation for the property registration, including the establishment of ownership;
- departure for the survey of the land;
- carrying out measurements, stake out points in nature, site surveying, etc.;
- fixing the boundaries of the site;
- processing of the obtained measurement results and execution of technical documentation;
- registration of documentation for the site in the StateGeoCadastre and other government agencies.
In addition, a cadastral engineer can provide legal and technical advice in terms of land management, legalization of a site, a preliminary assessment of its value, etc.
What Skills Should a Land Surveyor Have?
The skills of a survey engineer consist of theoretical knowledge in the field of geodesy and law, as well as practical skills in performing geodetic measurements, processing results and processing documentation.
In practice, the work of a survey engineer combines technical and legal abilities.
Equipment of the survey engineer
Equipping a survey engineer with modern certified equipment is a prerequisite for his work. If earlier specialists used optical instruments for measuring (total stations etc.), and maps had to be drawn on paper or manually transferred to a “cloud” of points, now such work is unthinkable without the use of special GPS/GNSS RTK kits with specialized software, which are positioned by satellites and base RTK stations.
Benefits of using GPS/GNSS RTK kits in land management work:
- comfortable and lightweight design
- centimeter measurement accuracy
- a large range of functions covering the entire list of works
- ease of processing and data transfer
- automatic integration with StateGeoCadastre maps
Like other GPS/GNSS precision measurement instruments, RTKs must have a calibration certificate issued for 1 year, with subsequent annual renewal after verification and confirmation of the declared accuracy.
The company Geometer in its GPS/GNSS RTK software packages provides services for issuing calibration certificates and fully prepares the survey engineer for work, including training on use.