Surveyors do so much more than . . . measure boundaries! Today’s surveyors use an array of new technologies . . . like 3D laser scanning to establish underground subway systems. Or Forensic surveyors investigate crime scenes like detectives. To help the defense - he’s measuring skid marks and a car’s relative position to the horizontal and vertical alignment of the sun, proving it wasn’t even this car that ran the light! Robotic Theodolites are busy mapping in ‘unfriendly’ places - like swamps or mines! The shipping industry relies on Hydrographic surveyors, because the terrain underneath bodies of water constantly changes.

Spotlight On: Surveying

Underwriter: American Congress of Surveying and Mapping

Aired in 2010

(Total Running Time: 7:32)