Role
AI for Surveyors
Founder, Automation Squad
Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.
Surveyors · O*NET 17-1022.00 · Job Zone 4 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database
Automation coverage
17 of 40tools on this list have an AI solution available today
Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.
AI you can use for this job
21 matched to the tools surveyors use. Showing 21.
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Microsoft Excel
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AutoCAD LT
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AppMake (make.com)
Geospatial Analysis
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Qgis Geographic Information System
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The tools this job actually uses
47 documented for this occupation. Showing 40, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.
- Autodesk AutoCADhot
- Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3Dhot
- Bentley MicroStationhot
- ESRI ArcGIS softwarehot
- Microsoft Excelhot
- Microsoft Office softwarehot
- Microsoft Wordhot
- Autodesk AutoCAD Land Desktop
- Bentley GeoPak Bridge
- Bentley Systems InRoads Suite
- Cadcorp desktop GIS
- Carlson SurvCADD
- Carlson SurvCE
- Carlson Survey
- CE SURVEYOR III
- CloudWorks
- CMT Incorporated CogoCAD
- Computer aided design and drafting software CADD
- Crones & Associations Project Tracker Pro
- Cyclone
- Data logging software
- Data transfer software
- Drafting software
- ESRI ArcView
- Geocomp Systems GeoNav
- Geodetic software
- Geographic information system GIS software
- Geographic information system GIS systems
- Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
- Global positioning system GPS software
- HYPACK HYSWEEP
- HYPACK MAX
- Latitude software
- MicroSurvey FieldGenius
- MicroSurveyCAD
- NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer
- PC-Mapper software
- Project analysis and costing software
- Project data integration software
- Sharetech Tabs Plus
What this job involves
24 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.
- Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
- Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
- Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
- Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
- Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
- Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
- Prepare, or supervise preparation of, all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.
- Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.
- Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.
- Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
- Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
- Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).
- Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.
- Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
- Analyze survey objectives and specifications to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.
- Testify as an expert witness in court cases on land survey issues, such as property boundaries.
- Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.
- Develop criteria for survey methods and procedures.
- Survey bodies of water to determine navigable channels and to secure data for construction of breakwaters, piers, and other marine structures.
- Direct aerial surveys of specified geographical areas.
- Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods, using knowledge of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.
- Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities, such as efforts to locate petroleum or other mineral products.
- Determine specifications for equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain.
- Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments.
