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O*NET detailed work activitySurvey land or bodies of water to measure or determine features
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Inspecting and monitoring in person means noticing what's off with your own eyes, ears and hands, and being accountable for calling it.
Part of Assess characteristics of land or property, under the O*NET work activity group Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 17 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
- Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
- Conduct surveys to determine exact positions, measurement of points, elevations, lines, areas, volumes, contours, or other features of land surfaces.
- Conduct surveys to ascertain the locations of natural features and man-made structures on the Earth's surface, underground, and underwater, using electronic distance-measuring equipment, such as GPS, and other surveying instruments.
- Collect information about specific features of the Earth, using aerial photography and other digital remote sensing techniques.
- Record survey measurements or descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, or inked tracings.
- Set out and recover stakes, marks, or other monumentation.
- Position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators use for sighting to measure angles, distances, and elevations.
- 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.
- Direct or participate in surveying to lay out installations or establish reference points, grades, or elevations to guide construction.
- Plan and conduct field surveys to locate new sites and analyze details of project sites.
- Supervise or conduct field surveys, inspections, or technical investigations to obtain data required to revise construction drawings.
- Survey bodies of water to determine navigable channels and to secure data for construction of breakwaters, piers, and other marine structures.
- Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities, such as efforts to locate petroleum or other mineral products.
- Perform offshore oil or gas exploration or extraction duties, such as conducting underwater surveys or repairing and maintaining drilling rigs or platforms.
- Travel over photographed areas to observe, identify, record, and verify all relevant features.
- Conduct field surveys or study maps, graphs, diagrams, or other data to identify and correct power system problems.