Property Surveying

Classification of Property Surveying

1. Isolated Survey
 Purpose is to survey isolated parcels of land that will be used for:
a)Agriculture
b) Residential
c)Industry
d) Commercial
e)Resettelement
 Types of Isolated Surveys
a)Public Land surveys
 Includes all kind of surveys of any parcel of land of the public domain
classified as alienable or disposable under the provision of the public
land laws
 This includes A&D lands, reclaimed, foreshore lands, marshlands, public
and private school sites, public and private charities, and other lands for
residential, commercial and industrial use
b) Private Land Surveys
 Includes all surveys of land owned by individuals, partnership,
corporations or other forms of organization, undertake for use in original
land registration proceedings under PD 1529
 Includes subdivision, consolation of decreed, patented or title properties
c)Government Land Surveys
 All survey of lands administered by or belonging to the national
government or any branches under Friar Lands Act No. 1120, Act No.
3038 or similar acts superimposing these provisions
d) Conversion Surveys
 Main objective is to convert graphical cadastral lots into numerical lots,
computed and plotted in the system of the cadastral project
e)Other Land Surveys
 Frequent surveys executed by geodetic engineers are verification
surveys, amendment surveys, segregation surveys, subdivision of leases,
patented or decreed land surveys, reinstatement/relocation surveys,
resurveys, and topographic surveys
 Verification Survey – whenever any approved survey is reported to be
erroneous or when properties are reported to overlap
 Amendment surveys – used for changing the boundary lines
 Segregation Surveys – used for segregating a portion of an isolated land
from the mother lot
 Resurveys – when a surveyed but not yet decreed for titling parcel of
land is found to have conflicts on its boundaries of the property. Also
done for parcels of land that has been decreed but the technical
description was lost
 Relocation surveys – done for isolated lands whose boundary marks have
been lost
 Topographic surveys – done to determine configuration of land
 f) Mineral or mining surveys
 Used for producing plans that will facilitate mining claims and support
underground tunneling
2. Cadastral Land surveys
3. Geodetic surveys
Agencies Involved in property surveying
 Duly licensed geodetic engineers registered under RA 4374
 Geodetic engineers in DENR
 Geodetic engineers in private practices
Instrumentation
 Electronic distance measurement (2-years)
 Steel, invar and other types (2 years)
 Total station (2-years)
 Survey grade GPS receivers (2 years)
Property Surveying Definition

 Use of land surveying techniques to acquire the size, shape and location of a piece of land owned
by a certain individual/s
 End goal = produce accurate and reliable maps. Public document that shall be used as evidence
for land ownership
 Purpose of property surveying
1. Acquire data needed for writing the legal description (technical description) and find
boundaries of the property
2. Re-observe the boundaries of the property that was previously surveyed
3. Subdivide the property into two or more smaller units in accordance to a design
Notes:
Claimant of property may/may not be the owner
True owners are determined though either administrative or judicial proceedings
Ultimate purpose = acquire patent/title to a parcel of land if it is A&D or if it is private
property