Description
Your duties could include:
- carrying out initial surveys and environmental impact assessments on potential sites to assess whether construction plans are workable
- using surveying instruments and GPS to chart exact coordinates of site features (geospatial measurement)
- producing digital images of sites (photogrammetry) and mapping land use with satellite photography (remote sensing)
- gathering data and using geographic information systems (GIS) to analyse and interpret site features (geomatics)
- monitoring land movement and subsidence caused during the construction project or by natural processes (geomechanics)
- draughting 2D and 3D charts and maps using computer aided design software and other cartographic techniques.