Will AI Replace Geodetic Surveyors?

Analyze control or survey data to ensure adherence to project specifications or land survey standards.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Conduct surveys to determine exact positions, measurement of points, elevations, lines, areas, volumes, contours, or other features of land surfaces.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Calculate the exact horizontal and vertical position of points on the Earth's surface.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Maintain databases of geodetic and related information, including coordinate, descriptive, or quality assurance data.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Verify the mathematical correctness of newly collected survey data.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Compute horizontal and vertical coordinates of control networks, using direct leveling or other geodetic survey techniques, such as triangulation, trilateration, and traversing, to establish features of the Earth's surface.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Plan or direct the work of geodetic surveying staff, providing technical consultation as needed.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Assess the quality of control data to determine the need for additional survey data for engineering, construction, or other projects.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Distribute compiled geodetic data to government agencies or the general public.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Request additional survey data when field collection errors occur or engineering surveying specifications are not maintained.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Read current literature, talk with colleagues, continue education, or participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in technology, equipment, or systems.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Provide training and interpretation in the use of methods or procedures for observing and checking controls for geodetic and plane coordinates.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prepare progress or technical reports.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Review existing standards, controls, or equipment used, recommending changes or upgrades as needed.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Compute, retrace, or adjust existing surveys of features such as highway alignments, property boundaries, utilities, control and other surveys to match the ground elevation-dependent grids, geodetic grids, or property boundaries and to ensure accuracy and continuity of data used in engineering, surveying, or construction projects.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Determine orientation of tracts of land, including position, boundaries, size, and shape, using theodolites, electronic distance-measuring equipment, satellite-based positioning equipment, land information systems, or other geodetic survey equipment.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.