Advanced - Land Surveying Training
Maximize your team’s capabilities with complete access to our training platform & advanced courses to gain deep technical expertise across survey types. Plus Lead Trainer Access for on-the-job training.
Learn Critical Skills to be Successful in your Land Surveying Role
The Advanced Program includes everything from Basic & Essentials + the Advanced Courses.
Compound your learning with the most comprehensive online land surveying training where each program builds upon the last.
Basic Learning Outcomes
- Industry overview of land surveying
- How land surveying works and why it matters
- Intro to essential surveying equipment and tools (total stations, data collectors, GPS units)
- Be able to speak the language of land surveying with industry jargon
- Key roles, stakeholders, & responsibilities in land surveying
- Different types of land surveys
- How to interpret deeds and legal descriptions
- Difference between what's on paper & actual physcial boundaries in the field
- Markers & monumentation, what it is and why it matters
- Understand how state-specific regulations affect surveying practices
Essentials Learning Outcomes
- Basic Field Operations
- Learn to set up and operate GPS units & total stations
- Perform traverses and establish control points
- Identify and recover boundary monuments
- Collect accurate field data and photos
- Record clear and complete field notes to save you & your team time
- Understand error theory and measurement accuracy
- Apply surveying concepts through hands-on fieldwork
- Build skills to become a self-sufficient field crew member (gone are the days of just being a rodman)
- Be able to produce value for the business within months instead of year
Advanced Learning Outcomes
- Perform boundary surveys and retrace original property lines
- Learn monument recovery and setting property corners
- Read and interpret complex legal descriptions, plats, and adjoining parcels
- Conduct ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys following national standards & Table A items
- Collect evidence for title insurance & help resolve boundary, encroachment, and title issues
- Create accurate 2D and 3D site maps using topographic and elevation data
- Execute cut/fill calculations, staking for utilities, foundations, and structures on job sites
- Apply surveying methods to support construction layouts and site planning
- Utilize stationing, offsets, and leveling for precise construction survey execution
- Bridge surveying theory to real-world application in legal, design, and construction settings
Land Surveying Training Reimagined, Online
- Access to One MC's Land Surveying Community
- Assessments to see your Progress
- Definition List of Land Surveying Jargon
- Real-world Examples
- Downloadable Resources & Handouts
- Calculations Cheat Sheet
- Progress Reports
- 1 Complimentary Trainer Account Access to Track Progress (upon request)
- Certificate of Completion
- Avg Time to Complete: 2-8 Weeks
- Enrollment Access: 6 Month
- Lifetime Access to Completed Lessons
Courses Included:
Check out each course to see the curriculum overview for this Training Package
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One MC Land Surveying Community
Community • 3 membersCommunity of land surveying industry professionals, surveyors, and aspiring surveyors. Learn from each other, collaborate on training, share best practices, get training support, and connect with others in the land surveying community.
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Land Surveying Introduction & Fundamentals
Course • 28 lessonsMaster the basics of land surveying with this comprehensive introduction. Gain essential skills and knowledge as you learn the fundamentals of land surveying as an industry, the types of services, and how it works so you won't be lost in the field.
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Survey Field Safety Training
Course • 10 lessonsLearn safety standards to help keep yourself and others safe while out in the field.
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Survey Field Training
Course • 60 lessonsThis course is focused on fieldwork and getting teams up to speed on working in the field, including initial learning to make your time in the field more productive and in-the-field training for boundary, ALTA, & topographical surveys.
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Boundary Surveying
Course • 50 lessonsThis is an advanced course that builds upon prior courses. This course is a deeper dive into boundary surveys, what a boundary survey is, the requirements for boundary surveys, and the ins and outs of boundary surveys out in the field.
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ALTA Surveying (American Land Title Association)
Course • 25 lessonsThis is an advanced course that builds upon prior courses. This course is a deeper dive into ALTA surveys (commercial property surveys), the ALTA guidelines & requirements, and the ins and outs of ALTA surveys out in the field.
PROVEN RESULTS WITH DIRECT RETURN ON INVESTMENT
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Reduce new hire training time by 66%
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Increase billable work sooner → Unlock potential revenue of $100K+/Employee/Yr
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Reduce costly training hours & mistakes → Save $20,000+ per hire
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Save senior staff time with standardized training → $10K Cost Saving + Driving Revenue
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Reduce senior staff burnout from having to train or hand-hold new hires
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Increase operational productivity by 2x
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Improve staff retention through clear career development
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Improve employee performance
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Improve quality of surveys & field work by having consistent & standardized training across the board