Sr Edrin Mohd Eusoff

Bahagian Ukur dan Pemetaan,

Institut Tanah dan Ukur Negara, 35950 Behrang Ulu, Perak

Kata Kunci: UAV, LiDAR, Total Station, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Cadastral Survey, Topographic Survey

ABSTRAK

Surveying is known as one of the earliest profession in the history of mankind. The basis of such claim was due to the fact from the historical evidence found in places like Greek, Egypt, Stonehenge and Mesopotamia in a form of equipment, documents and ancient drawings. This evidence dated way back to early human civilization. It is believed that the civilized community back then, they also had to earn a living to make ends meet just like we are doing in present time. The majority of the working class people, they plant corps and with the profit they made from their agricultural activity, they had to pay tax according to the land area that they occupied or alotted. In conjunction to that, the function of surveying during those days was very straight forward which is to calculate the area for the purpose of tax collection by the respective authority. This was the breakthrough in the science and knowledge of surveying. Thus the scientific effort to accurately determine the area of a plot of a land and to map its features onto a paper are part of what land surveying was all about. Moving forward in present time, despite the dynamics of the technology, still the fundamental of surveying and the motivation of producing plans and maps remain unchanged. The elements that have grown rapidly from the past to present are certainly in areas concerning the tools, gadgets, software and the application used in getting the surveying job done. Hence, this study would discuss and further explore the potential and the challenges of using this cutting edge technologies known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) because, in general, both are considered as the next big thing in survey and mapping