This course seeks to cover mankind’s original need for systems of measurement, how these systems developed and evolved across the ages in some of the familiar cultures of the historical world, and how the evolution of these systems applies to the work of the modern surveyor.
This course explores the origins of land boundaries, the principles guiding their creation, and the ethical responsibilities that surveyors must uphold. Correct boundary determination is essential to maintaining property rights, resolving disputes, and ensuring the orderly transfer of real estate.
This course is presented as an overview of historical and modern aspects of property law, providing land surveyors with an improved understanding of the legal principles that govern land use and ownership.
The Specifications in this land surveyor course provide guidance for writing accurate boundary descriptions and locations by survey, the form and arrangement to be followed for Executive and public land orders and proclamations, and examples of boundary descriptions.
This course establishes criteria and presents guidance on monumentation installation and documentation for all types of surveys required during the various stages of civil and military projects.
This course will study the original development of the District of Columbia and Washington, D.C., focusing particularly on the survey and layout of the district and the city and the stories of the people who accomplished this remarkable work.
This course will shed light on these problems by reviewing important definitions, federal law, state laws, and the history of determining water right and boundaries through multiple case studies.
In this document, the surveyor learns to locate points using angles and distances. In construction surveying, the surveyor must often establish the line of a curve for road layout or some other construction.
The goal of this course is to present the student with an overview of the topic of ethics by introducing basic ethical principles and relating them to real-world situations likely to be encountered by the practicing land surveyor.