Surveying Merit Badge
Learn surveying techniques including radial measurements, GPS plotting, elevation mapping, and creating scale maps with instruments to earn this merit badge.
What you'll do
- Field Safety for Surveyors Show that you know first aid for the types of injuries that could occur while surveying, including cuts, scratches, …
- Radial Measurements and GPS Checks Set an instrument over one of the corners of a five-sided lot laid out by your counselor and sighting one of the other …
- Plotting Your Survey Map From the field notes gathered for requirement 2, and using a protractor and scale, plot the points you measured and draw …
- Finding Elevations from a Benchmark Use one of the corner markers from requirement 2 as a benchmark with an assumed elevation of 100 feet.
At a glance
- Requirements
- 8
- Category
- Professions
- Eagle Required
- No
- Updated
- March 29, 2026