Survey – Wikipedia

Survey may refer to:

Statistics and human research[edit]

Surveying, the technique and science of measuring positions and distances on Earth

Photogrammetry, a method of collecting information using aerial photography and satellite images
Cadastral surveyor, 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, done by the U.S. Public Land Survey System
Construction surveying, the locating of structures relative to a reference line, used in the construction of buildings, roads, mines, and tunnels
Deviation survey, used in the oil industry to measure a borehole’s departure from the vertical
Archaeological field survey, the collection of information by archaeologists prior to excavation

Geological survey, an investigation of the subsurface of the ground to create a geological map or model

Cave survey, the three-dimensional mapping of caverns
Geophysical survey, the systematic collection of geophysical data for spatial studies
Hydrographic survey, the gathering of information about navigable waters for the purposes of safe navigation of vessels
Soil survey, the mapping of the properties and varieties of soil in a given area

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