Landscape Survey

SurveyingIndia provides a comprehensive range of topographic and earthwork surveys. Surveys are carried out using a Global Positioning System (GPS), which allows detailed geo-referenced data to be acquired and readily and correctly transmitted to base maps for a range of archaeological and other uses.

Among the archaeological GPS applications are:

• Trench stake out – aiming for geophysical abnormalities or features identified in aerial images or prior surveys;
• Artefact mapping – precise 3D plots of field-walking discoveries or artefacts recovered during excavation
• Specialist site identification is using metal detectors to locate spots of historical relevance, such as battles or aircraft crashes.
• Topographic surveys allow for extensive investigation of a terrain in order to give contour and earthwork surveys.
• Grid and transect layout – properly laying out grids and transects on pre-determined points on a site or in the field;
• Pre and post excavation planning – accurate real-time planning allowing site plans to be instantaneously displayed onscreen, and survey control points – providing permanent references for future surveys removing the need to reference successive surveys