Stakeholder Wants Use Of Robust Tools In Surveying

A land surveyor,
Lazarus Ojigi, has called for total charge in land surveying operations in Nigeria through the use of modern and robust surveying tools for geodetic and computing  capability needed to develop and support location based information system.
Ojigi, who was speaking in a forum on housing in Port Harcourt, noted that land titling and record system has been a serious problem in Nigeria over the years.
He said that developments in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have improved the tools and technique for surveying solutions and practice across the globe, and have repositioned the discipline of surveying and geo-informatics.
“Today, the understanding and applications of surveying and geo informatics requires huge inputs of computer, science and information technology”, he said.
As part of efforts by the Federal Government to key into the modern practice, Ojigi said that the office of the Surveyor-General of the federation has installed about 15 permanent  Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) continuously operating reference stations (CORS) to provide geospatial data for AFREF projects.
According to him, field crews use a similar GNSS system to capture cadastral/land information in Nigeria today.
He said “in rural areas, handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers measure property and ownership boundaries to an accuracy of 20-30cm. for properly in higher-value urban areas, survey grade GNSS receivers  collect data to cent meter precision.

Corlins Walter