Landscape survey
Detailed survey for landscape design, gardens, parks and villa grounds: dense spot heights, existing planting, paths, walls and small structures.
Licensed service · EL-845/2026
A landscape survey is a topographic plan tailored to landscape architects and designers. Compared with a standard plan, it captures subtle changes in relief and records planting, paths, steps, retaining walls, pools, fountains and garden structures in greater detail. The aim is to preserve as much of the existing setting as possible while building the new landscape design on a reliable base.
Typical clients are owners of villas and country houses, residential complexes with courtyards, parks and boulevards, hotels and leisure resorts. With the plan the designer works out surface water flow, drainage and irrigation, terraces, lawn and flower bed levels and path gradients, and calculates how much soil must be brought in or removed.
Relief is usually shown at 0.25–0.5 m contours, with spot heights every 3–5 metres and along every break line. Trees and large shrubs are surveyed individually, with species and crown spread noted where required. GNSS RTK is used in open areas and a total station under trees and near buildings; on complex terrain 3D laser scanning can provide a point cloud with millimetre-level detail.
Alongside the AutoCAD plan we deliver a digital terrain model in Civil 3D so that the designer can run slope and elevation analyses directly.
When you need it
- Landscape design for villa and country house grounds
- Courtyard improvements in residential complexes
- Redevelopment of parks, boulevards and squares
- Design of hotel and resort grounds
- Drainage and automatic irrigation design
What's included
- Relief at 0.25–0.5 m contours with dense spot heights
- Break lines, slopes and terraces measured
- Trees and large shrubs surveyed individually
- Paths, steps, retaining walls and pools recorded
- Water flow, drainage and irrigation elements shown
- 3D laser scanning where needed
- Digital terrain model in Civil 3D
How we work
- Agreeing requirements and level of detail with the designer
- Establishing survey control
- Survey of relief, planting and hard landscape
- Building the terrain model and drafting the plan
- Handover and consultation with the designer
Deliverables
- Landscape topographic plan (DWG, PDF)
- Digital terrain model (Civil 3D)
- List of trees and shrubs
- Point cloud (if laser scanned)
