Surveying & Mapping

Land Surveying

Cole Surveying & Design, PA (CSD) has extensive experience in the surveying industry and can provide all types of land surveying services required for a typical project. These services include; boundary, topographic, route, subdivision, planned community, mixed-use development, water and sewer, monitoring well surveys, construction staking and layout, conservation easement and stream restoration, ALTA/NSPS, Flood Certificates and aerial drone/UAV surveys.

Our survey director, Wes Cole, is proficient in preparing ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys and resolving legal and standards issues that may arise. He excels at his capacity to collaborate with both the buyer’s and seller’s sides to create an end-product that meets and exceeds all expectations.

CSD’s past experience and our knowledge of local requirements ensures that our surveying team can swiftly and precisely collect, process, and plot the data necessary to make an accurate and easy to utilize survey.

Surveying & Mapping

Asheville Surveying and Mapping

  • ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys

  • Boundary Surveys

  • Small, Medium, and Large Tracts

  • Residential Lots

  • Recombination Surveys/Boundary Line Adjustments

  • Major Subdivisions

  • Minor Subdivisions

  • Easement and right of way surveys for all types of uses including utility easements (water/sewer/etc), access easements, and ingress/egress easements

  • Conservation Easement Surveys

  • Legal Descriptions for real property/easement/right of way

  • As-Built surveys for foundations, buildings, water, sewer, stormwater, and other site features/utilities

  • Elevation Certificates

Construction Staking

Cole Surveying & Design | Construction Staking

  • Residential layout for excavation, footer installation, and foundation installation

  • Commercial building layout for excavation, footer installation, foundation installation, column lines

  • Establish control points for GPS machine control systems

  • 3D models of design plans for GPS machine control systems

  • Establish site benchmarks

  • Staking all utilities such as stormwater, sewer, water, dry utilities, power/utility poles

  • Staking of site features such as clearing limits, curb and gutter, roads, ditches, retention/detention basins, silt fence, retaining walls, light poles, sidewalks, greenways

  • Deformation monitoring

Topography & Location Surveys

Cole Surveying & Design | Topography and Location Surveys

  • Conventional Ground Topographic Surveys

  • Small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS “drone”) Topographic Surveys

  • Aerial Photogrammetry and LiDAR Mapping (CSD partners with qualified photogrammetrists to provide this service)

  • 3D Surface Models/Digital Terrain Models

  • GPS (Global Positioning System)

  • Route & Location Surveys for Highway/Greenway/Sidewalk/Water/Sewer/Stormwater Design

  • Stream Bank/Channel Restoration Surveys

  • Wetlands Mapping

  • FEMA Floodplain/Floodway/Non-Encroachment Surveys

Aerial/UAV Drone

Cole Surveying & Design | Aerial UAV Drone Asheville

CSD is licensed to operate an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) which is important to us in our pursuit of staying up-to-date with the ever-changing technology in the surveying profession.  UAV technology and precise aerial data collection are revolutionizing the land surveying industry. UAV systems can capture unprecedented high-resolution aerial photography and assist with detailed accuracy for our client’s land surveying and mapping needs.  CSD can provide the following services utilizing UAV’s:

  • Topographic Surveys

  • 3D Point Clouds

  • 3D Textured Mesh

  • Digital Surface Model

  • Orthomosaic Imagery (Low altitude, high definition, geo-referenced, corrected, and scaled imagery)

  • 3D Model/Rendering

  • Aerial Images & Videos