Survey may refer to:

Statistics and human research

Statistical survey Survey methodology is "the study of survey methods". As a field of applied statistics concentrating on human-research surveys, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from a population and associated techniques of survey da ...

, a method for collecting quantitative information about items in a population *

Survey (human research) In research of human subjects, a survey is a list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people. Surveys may be conducted by phone, mail, via the internet, and also at street corners or in malls. Surveys are us ...

, including opinion polls

Spatial measurement

Surveying Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...

, the technique and science of measuring positions and distances on Earth

Types and methods

Photogrammetry Photogrammetry is the science and technology of obtaining reliable information about physical objects and the environment through the process of recording, measuring and interpreting photographic images and patterns of electromagnetic radiant ima ...

, a method of collecting information using aerial photography and satellite images * Cadastral surveyor, used to document land ownership, by the production of documents, diagrams, plats, and maps ** Dominion Land Survey, the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one-square-mile sections for agricultural and other purposes ** Public Land Survey System, a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels **

Survey township A survey township, sometimes called a Congressional township or just township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System, is a nominally-square area of land that is nominally six U.S. survey miles (about 9.66 km) on a side. E ...

, a square unit of land, six miles (~9.7 km) on a side, done by the U.S. Public Land Survey System * Construction surveying, the locating of structures relative to a reference line, used in the construction of buildings, roads, mines, and tunnels * Deviation survey, used in the oil industry to measure a borehole's departure from the vertical *

Archaeological field survey In archaeology, survey or field survey is a type of field research by which archaeologists (often landscape archaeologists) search for archaeological sites and collect information about the location, distribution and organization of past human c ...

, the collection of information by archaeologists prior to excavation

Geospatial survey organizations

Survey of India The Survey of India is India's central engineering agency in charge of Cartography, mapping and surveying.

, India's central agency in charge of mapping and surveying * Ordnance Survey, a national mapping agency for Great Britain * U.S. National Geodetic Survey, performing geographic surveys as part of the U.S. Department of Commerce

Geological surveys

* Geological survey, an investigation of the subsurface of the ground to create a geological map or model

Types

* Cave survey, the three-dimensional mapping of caverns * Geophysical survey, the systematic collection of geophysical data for spatial studies * Hydrographic survey, the gathering of information about navigable waters for the purposes of safe navigation of vessels * Soil survey, the mapping of the properties and varieties of soil in a given area

Geological survey organizations

British Geological Survey The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research. The BGS h ...

, a body which carries out geological surveys and monitors the UK landmass * United States Geological Survey, a government scientific research agency which studies the landscape of the United States

Astronomical surveys

* Astronomical survey, imaging or mapping regions of the sky ** '' Durchmusterung'', a German word for a systematic survey of objects or data, generally used in astronomy ** Redshift survey, an astronomical survey of a section of the sky to calculate the distance of objects from Earth

Other types of survey

* Field survey or field research * Site survey, inspection of an area where work is proposed * Vessel safety survey, required for ships *

Survey article A review article is an article that summarizes the current state of understanding on a topic within a certain discipline. A review article is generally considered a secondary source since it may analyze and discuss the method and conclusions ...

, a scholarly publication to summarize an area of research