Surveying types and their needs in Civil engineering

1) boundary and cadastral surveying 

• Related to separation and mapping of property boundaries .

2) plane surveying 

• concerns small area project and surveying work where earth curvature can be neglected .

3) Topographic surveying 

• The third dimension - heights - is included .

4 ) Geodetic surveying 

• concerns large area surveying works such as geodetic networks , etc . 
• earth curvature is taken into account .

5) Engineering construction surveying includes surveying works needed for 

• planning 
• design
• Implementation 
• Monitoring 

6 ) Quantity surveying 

field works and computations related to determination of quantities :

• cut 
• fill
• buildings materials , etc