Location and Design Division
VDOT GOVERNANCE DOCUMENT
Location and Design Division
Issued 2009 - revised August 2021
Survey Manual 
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| CHAPTERS |
DESCRIPTION |
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General |
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Equipment |
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Signing and Sealing of Professional Survey Deliverables |
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Right of Entry, Property, Prescriptive Easements, & Metes and Bounds Surveys |
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GNSS & Control |
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| Chapter 6 |
Photogrammetric Surveys |
| Chapter 7 |
Location Surveys |
| Chapter 8 |
Hydraulic Survey |
| Chapter 9 |
Laser Scanning and LiDAR Applications |
| Chapter 10 |
Final Surveys |
| Chapter 11 | Construction Survey |
| Chapter 12 | Subsurface Utility Engineering Designation and Location |
| Appendix A | Standards of Practice SUE Locations and Designations |
| Appendix B |
Miscellaneous Formulae & Conversion Tables |
| Appendix C |
Appendix C has been removed and references are hyperlinked to the current standard. |
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