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Surveying Engineering

Resources for Penn State faculty, staff, and students researching surveying engineering topics.

About Surveying Engineering

About Surveying

Surveying has traditionally been defined as the science, art, and technology of determining the relative positions of points above, on, or beneath the Earth's surface, or of establishing such points.  Surveying can also be regarded as that discipline that encompasses all methods for measuring and collecting information about the physical Earth and our environment, processing that information, and disseminating a variety of resulting products to a wide range of clients. (Ghilani, Wolf, 2015)

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