Survey-as-process: meanders or oxbows?

Land surveying is a process that is more than fieldwork. Survey-as-process includes interplay with existing surveys, with landowners (and others with rights in the land) and with regulators. Proof of concept evidence, theoretical constructs, a Specific Claims Tribunal decision and a First Nations La...

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Published in:Geomatica
Main Authors: Rogers, Steven, Ballantyne, Brian, Tompkins, Erin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2018
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/geomat-2018-0003
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/geomat-2018-0003
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/geomat-2018-0003
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Summary:Land surveying is a process that is more than fieldwork. Survey-as-process includes interplay with existing surveys, with landowners (and others with rights in the land) and with regulators. Proof of concept evidence, theoretical constructs, a Specific Claims Tribunal decision and a First Nations Land Management Act boundary opinion illustrate how survey-as process fits within the larger exercise of re-establishing boundaries.