SURVEY(CIVIL ENGG.)

Geography

• Surveying, the technique and science of measuring positions and distances on Earth
• Aerial survey, a method of collecting information using aerial photography
• Cadastral survey, used to document land ownership, by the production of documents, diagrams, plats, and maps
• Dominion Land Survey, the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one-square-mile sections for agricultural and other purposes
• Public Land Survey System, a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels
• Survey township, a square unit of land, six miles (~9.7 km) on a side, used by the U.S. Public Land Survey System

[edit] Statistics

• Statistical survey, a collection of quantitative information about members of a population
  • Census, a collection of information about every member of a population
  • Sampling (statistics), collecting information on only a sample of a population
• Opinion poll, an informal collection of opinions using sampling
• Quantitative marketing research, the use of surveys to collect data for marketing purposes
• Paid survey, statistical survey which rewards the participant, often used to collect information for marketing purposes
• Questionnaire, a series of questions used to gather information

[edit] Earth Sciences

• Geological survey, an investigation of the subsurface of the ground to create a geological map or model
• Geophysical survey, the systematic collection of geophysical data for spatial studies
• Soil survey, the mapping of the properties and varieties of soil in a given area
• Archaeological field survey, the collection of information by archaeologists prior to excavation
• Hydrographic survey, the gathering of information about navigable waters for the purposes of safe navigation of vessels
• Cave survey, the three-dimensional mapping of underground caverns; the resulting map is also referred to as a survey

[edit] Astronomy

• Astronomical survey, imaging or mapping regions of the sky
• Durchmusterung, a German word for a systematic survey of objects or data, generally used in astronomy
• Redshift survey, an astronomical survey of a section of the sky to calculate the distance of objects from Earth