Will someone explain land surveying to me like I’m five? My family recently had my late FIL’s land surveyed in order to split it up. He and another guy stood around with a stick and that viewer thing. $2500 later, he’s got the acreage all figured out. How does it work??
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“The viewer thing” was most likely a total station. The stick has a reflective prism on top of it. The total station can very accurately determine the distance between itself and the prism by sending a signal to the prism and measuring the time it takes to bounce back.
If you start out by measuring a known point (called a survey monument,) then you can work out all your other points based on their distances from the survey monument.
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