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Job Description

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.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-1022.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 63,480.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 30.00
Currently, there are 43,340 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Surveyors”.

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Tasks for “Photogrammetric Engineer”

Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
Develop criteria for survey methods and procedures.
Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
Analyze survey objectives and specifications to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.
Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods using knowledge of techniques of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.
Determine specifications for photographic equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain.
Survey bodies of water to determine navigable channels and to secure data for construction of breakwaters, piers, and other marine structures.
Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities such as efforts to locate petroleum or other mineral products.
Prepare or supervise preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.
Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.
Direct aerial surveys of specified geographical areas.
Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.
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.
Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments.
Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.
Record the results of surveys including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.

Related Technology & Tools

Pocket personal computers PC
Tribrachs
Curvimeters
Two way radios
Rod levels
Telescopic viewers
Stereoscopes
Total stations
Digital measuring poles
Global positioning system GPS receivers
Tracking lasers
Abney levels
Single-beam echo sounders
Road measuring wheels
Planimeters
San Francisco rods
Altimeters
Laser plumb bobs
Machetes
Transit levels
Robotic tripods
Robotic total stations
Side scan sonars
Elevator tripods
Line lasers
Rotary lasers
Gammon reels
Reflectorless total stations
Prismless total stations
Visible beam lasers
Depth gauge tapes
Laptop computers
Plumb bobs
Measuring rods
Dot lasers
Invisible beam lasers
Single-beam transducers
Digital laser rangefinders
Long range reflectorless total stations
Distance meters
Right-angle prisms
Barometers
Double right-angle prisms
Integrated global positioning systems GPS
Measuring tapes
Tripods
Mechanical theodolites
Electronic digital levels
Electronic digital theodolites
Magnetic locators
Direct elevation rods
Automatic slope lasers
Prism poles
Surveyors leveling rods
Hand levels
Philadelphia rods
Geological compasses
Laser scanners
Automatic levels
Clinometers
Handheld measuring lasers
Pocket transits

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