The Demand of Geodetic Engineers in the Philippines

The Bachelor of Science in Geodetic Engineering program provides knowledge, skills and relevant experience to students in the fundamentals of surveying and mapping work, geodesy, remote sensing, geographic information systems and oceanography. It also focuses on the laws of public lands and natural resources, land registration laws, obligations and contracts and professional ethics. “Leading the Geodetic Engineering Profession Towards Global Competitiveness”, is not only relevant in this technology highway age but also challenging on the part of the Geodetic Engineering Profession and the environment where you are operating. The land management and disposition playing field is so vast. The demand for Geodetic Engineering work in the local arena is very high.

Surveyors have been around for centuries. While their tools and techniques have changed over time the underlying principles of measurement and mapping are still the same today. The advancement of new technology means Surveyors can now take measurements and report data with increased speed and accuracy. Modern Surveyors get to use the latest technology to get their job done every day.3D laser scanners are used to understand and interpret the shape of things such as buildings or land by collecting clouds of points to create digital 3-D models. Nikon technology instruments are used by surveyors to provide data to architects to accurately visualize the land they are going to build or design on. Two visible red tracking beams---one steady, one blinking---abovethe telescope objective lens improve stakeout efficiency even further.Accurate to ± 6 cm at 100 m.One-, two- or three-second accuracy models to meet a wide variety of surveying applications. The Road excellent automatic logging system (Real) is a surveying system unique to PASCO. It conducts surveys on the front-view images of the road, road surface damage conditions (cracks, ruts, IRI, flatness), and coordinates (road surface coordinates, position coordinates). The system combines geographical information and road images to help customers build up a new road management service system;Wide Image Capturing, Stereo Image Capturing and Stereo Image Capturing.The use of MMS in road condition surveying (roads, structures, facilities, exclusive use) reduces exclusive road use time in site operations, and enables the acquisition of 3D data for roads and their surroundings in an efficient yet low-cost manner. Through this technology, it is possible to gain an accurate and detailed understanding of the current situation. Public survey work regulations may be applied to surveying work that makes use of MMS (Rules, Article 17 (Special Provisions for Work Methods and Equipment, etc.)) With MMS, it is also possible to draw up a photographic image of roads without vehicles, which is difficult when using aerial photographs. Philippine Geodetic Engineering Act of 1998, an Act Regulating The Practice of Geodetic Engineering in the Philippines.A Geodetic Engineer is a natural person who has been issued a Certificate of Registration by the Board of Geodetic Engineering and has taken the Oath of Profession of Geodetic Engineers.The Certificate of Registration of a Geodetic Engineer shall bear the signatures of the Chairman of the Board and the Chairman of the Professional Regulation Commission and stamped with the official seal of the Board indicating that the person named therein is a registered Geodetic Engineer.To be qualified as having passed the board examination for Geodetic Engineers, a candidate must obtain a weighted general average of seventy percent (70%), with no grade lower than fifty-five percent (55%) in any given subject.

In view of these trends, it is important that we should improve our skills both in theory and practice considering breakthroughs in information, technology and machinery. We are lucky this time that we have already globally competitive institutions which could provide our needs for advanced and higher education. Through the improvement of land surveying devices, well-organized highways, and the demand of surveying profession, surely the demand of geodetic engineer’s profession leads towards global competitiveness.