Surveyor

Surveyor may refer to:

Professions and their activities

• Surveying, the process of determining accurate positions on, or near the Earth's surface
  • Cadastral surveying, the process of establishing boundary locations and land parcel corners
  • Construction surveying, the process of layout out construction projects, and verifying their position during construction
  • A hydrographic survey, the gathering of information about navigable waters, mapping the topography of the bed of lakes, rivers, and large bodies of water
• A marine surveyor or "ship surveyor", someone who inspects and examines ships
• A quantity surveyor, someone who controls costs on construction projects
• A pollster, someone who conducts surveys or opinion polls
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a professional body which regulates property professionals and surveyors in the United Kingdom and other countries
• American Congress on Surveying and Mapping a learned body of cartographers, geodesists, GIS practitioners, and professional land surveyors in the United States of America

Places

• Surveyor Bay (Alaska), a bay on the coast of Unalaska Island in Alaska in the United States
• Surveyor Bay (Tasmania), a bay on the coast of Tasmania in Australia
• Surveyor Lake (Algoma District), in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada
• Surveyor Lake (Nipissing District), in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada

Publications

• Surveyor magazine, a British professional weekly

Ships

• NOAAS Surveyor (S 132), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration survey ship in service from 1960 to 1995 or 1996
• USC&GS Surveyor, the name of more than one ship of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• USS Surveyor (1917), an armed steamer in commission in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919

Space exploration

• Surveyor Program, a series of unmanned spaceflights to the Moon

Other

• Surveyor (typeface), a Didone classification serif typeface
• The Surveyors, a 1972 Swiss film