PartnerA GNSS receiver that’s yours to keep
A real RTK rover shipped to your door — the same hardware working surveyors run in the field. Pair it with any state CORS network and start collecting centimeter-grade data.
For survey, mapping, LiDAR and GNSS work
Your technology can be precise.
Your project can still be wrong.
Learn to verify control, accuracy and deliverables before your client does — and hand over work you can defend. Taught by licensed surveyors — whether or not you are one.
What we teach
Control & accuracyGNSS & GPSGeodeticsBoundary surveyingDrone mappingLiDAR & scanningNTRIP & RTKPhotogrammetryCAD & Civil 3D
The missing link
Surveyors don't own accuracy.
There is no monopoly on collecting good data. A licence is permission to certify it, nothing more. Anyone can collect survey-grade data. You just have to know how.
So learn to collect it right and talk about it right. Then a licensed surveyor puts their stamp on it and the job is yours.
What a licence actually is
Permission to certify a survey. That is the whole of it. The industry has quietly let you believe it also covers collecting the data. It doesn’t.
Why the bigger job goes to someone else
Not your drone. Not your scanner. Nobody downstream can verify what you handed them, and you can’t yet have the conversation that fixes it.
What changes here
You learn control, datums, verification, and how to talk about all three. Then you can hand a surveyor something they’ll put their stamp on.
Michael joined with a drone and a project-manager job. Twelve months later he runs a six-figure mapping business, sits with engineers and survey crews as a peer, and has standing weekly work on an 84,000 sq ft commercial build.
Michael's results are his own and are not typical. What you get from this is decided by your effort, your experience and your market.
The classroom is the job site
Built around your deliverable.
Surveying is usually taught to people becoming surveyors. You're not — you have a job, a client, and a deadline. So we teach the part that decides whether your work holds up: control , datums , verification , and the reports that prove your numbers. Taught by licensed surveyors, aimed at the person handing the file over.
No licence requiredReal job sitesYour own data reviewedLicensed instructors
The program
Three phases, in the order that actually works.
Most people try to skip to the third one. That's why the bigger work doesn't come. You can't sell a deliverable you can't defend, and you can't defend data you were never taught to check.
01
Diagnose
Know if your data is good before your client does.
How to read your own data critically — residuals, redundancy, closure, control geometry. What “good” means as an actual number, and what the report is telling you.
What you can do at the end
You can look at a dataset you shot and say what it holds to, with evidence.
Right now you hand it over and hope. This is the difference between hoping and knowing.
02
Adjust
Fix it at the desk instead of driving back out.
Two paths: correcting the field workflow so the error stops happening, and rescuing the data you already have through proper adjustment.
What you can do at the end
You turn a questionable dataset into a defensible one without remobilizing.
One avoided trip back to site — crew, truck, day — pays for months of membership.
03
Deliver
Turn correct data into deliverables that get paid.
The products clients actually buy — certified surfaces, control reports, volumes, digital twins — and how to present accuracy so an engineer signs off on it.
What you can do at the end
You bid work you used to pass on, and you can defend your number in the room.
Accuracy you can’t communicate doesn’t win contracts. This is where the skill becomes revenue.
Takes a minute. We'll show you exactly how it works.
Inside the community
What's inside the Survey School.
More than a course — a working room of business owners, project managers, mappers and field crews who need their numbers to hold up. Lectures, live calls, workshops, peer help, and the gear to back it up.
Working surveyors, not influencers
Rami Tamimi (PS, PhD candidate at Ohio State), Joe Nelson PLS (BKF Engineers), Dr. Joseph Kerski (PhD, former Esri), plus guest pros from boundary, geodesy, drones, and GIS.
Weekly live lectures & Q&A
Bring your survey, your data, the spot you're stuck on. The instructors and the members actually answer — these aren't fluff calls.
A growing recorded library
Drones, GNSS/RTK, CAD/Civil 3D, geodetics, control & accuracy, field practice. New lectures every week — updated as the field changes.
Hands-on workshops & field days
Annual Geo Week field day, regional meetups, equipment demos. Real gear, real ground, real conversations — not webinar simulations.
A community that actually helps
Working professionals helping each other through Skool — no gatekeeping, no trolling. The opposite of the rest of the internet.
The gear comes with it
A GNSS receiver that’s yours to keep, a Pix4D license, and free RTK corrections. You train on the same tools you’ll deliver paid work with.
Real industry perks
Premium tiers unlock a free 12-month Pix4Dmatic Pro + Pix4Dcatch Pro license and a free Emlid GNSS receiver shipped to your door.
Annual Survey Research Symposium
Present your work to the community. The top project earns a fully-paid trip to Intergeo — the biggest geospatial event in the world.
Member perksThe hardware and software
The hardware and software
we put in your hands.
Not swag — the actual tools you'll deliver client work with. Our partners give Survey School members access you can't get on your own.
Partner
Partner12 months of Pix4Dmatic Pro + Pix4Dcatch Pro
Production-grade photogrammetry on the same software drone-survey firms run. Orthomosaics, point clouds, and terrain models with no per-project fees.
PartnerFree RTK corrections
Live network corrections so you can shoot centimeter-grade work without buying a base station or paying a monthly subscription to a correction service.
PartnerA Full Conference Pass, free
The largest commercial drone conference in North America — Las Vegas, September. The full pass, not exhibit-hall-only, so you get the whole conference program.
Why this works
We don't teach you to take a test. We teach you to do the job.
One of our members spent weeks chasing a 970-foot error. His gear was perfect — 7 mm against an NGS monument. His method was perfect. The job just happened to sit on a modified state plane system nobody had mentioned. You can't Google a problem you don't know exists. That's what a room full of surveyors is for.
The communityA global community.
A global community.
Everywhere the work is.
Every pin is someone with real projects and real clients, learning the accuracy side of the job. Click any city to see who's nearby.
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About
Built by surveyors. For everyone else.
There are two things missing in this industry. Nobody is collecting high-accuracy data, and nobody is turning it into deliverables worth paying for. That's the whole gap — and those two things are exactly what this school teaches.
Most of our members are not licensed surveyors and have no plans to be. They own mapping and scanning businesses, manage construction and engineering projects, or run a department whose crews are already collecting data. Licensed surveyors are in here too, sharpening the technology side of the work. What they all share is that accuracy is their problem — and nobody ever sat them down and explained how it actually works.
So that's what we teach: geodetics, control, GNSS, LiDAR, processing — explained the way one working professional explains it to another, not the way a textbook explains it to a student. Weekly live sessions with licensed instructors, a room full of professionals to ask when the math isn't mathing, and in-person workshops on live job sites.
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The team
Meet your instructors.
Licensed, practicing surveyors — the people who actually check work like yours, explaining what they check and why. No gatekeeping.
Founder · Lead instructor
Rami Tamimi, P.S.
Professional Surveyor and PhD Candidate in Geodetic Engineering at The Ohio State University. Decade-plus of land development experience plus three years tuning sensor alignment for self-driving systems. Teaches the modern stack — LiDAR, drones, photogrammetry — without losing the survey-grade fundamentals.
- Professional Surveyor (P.S.)
- PhD Candidate · Geodetic Engineering, OSU
- Founder of The Survey School
Land Surveying Instructor
Joe Nelson, PLS
Project Manager at BKF Engineers with 14 years of professional surveying. Teaches the production-grade workflow — boundary, topo, ALTA, control networks, and final maps ready for stamp.
- Licensed Professional Land Surveyor
- 14+ years field & project management
- ALTA · boundary · topo specialist
Geospatial & GIS Instructor
Dr. Joseph Kerski, PhD GISP
Geographer and GIS educator with three degrees in geography and 22 years across NOAA, Census, and USGS. Author of 12 books and 2 TED Talks. Teaches the spatial-thinking foundation that turns coordinates into decisions.
- PhD Geography · GISP certified
- Author, 12 books · 2 TED Talks
- Former Esri Education Manager
Reviews from Members
What it costs
Two ways in. One of them ships you the gear.
Most people start on Standard. Premium costs less per month and arrives with the equipment you were going to buy anyway.
Standard
$199/month
Cancel anytime · 7-day money-back guarantee
- Three live classes every week with licensed professionals
- Step-by-step courses and quizzes
- Your own roadmap, built around where you actually are
- A global room that answers questions daily
Premium
$1,595/year
Works out around $133/month — less than Standard
- Everything in Standard
- Your own Emlid GNSS receiver — yours to keep~$2,999
- 12-month Pix4Dmatic Pro license~$4,990
- Full conference pass, Commercial UAV Expo, Las Vegas~$1,275
- Instant access to every course
Over $8,000 of real equipment and software, for $1,595.
Buying for a crew? We do team seats — ask us and we'll size it to your headcount.
Frequently Asked Questions
That's who we built this for. Most members will never sit for a licence — they own mapping or scanning businesses, manage projects, or run departments whose crews collect data every day. There is no monopoly on collecting good high quality data. A survey licence is used to certify a drawing, nothing more. Anyone can collect survey-grade data. You just have to know how.
None. We teach from zero. Members arrive as drone and scanning operators, construction and engineering staff, project managers, career changers — and licensed surveyors brushing up on the technology side. The fundamentals are the same for all of them.
Yes, and there are surveyors in here already. The licence covers the practice; what moves fastest is the technology around it — GNSS workflows, drone and LiDAR capture, processing, and the accuracy checks that decide whether any of it holds up. That is what we teach, alongside licensed instructors you can argue the details with.
The program is designed for people with full-time jobs and live projects. 30 minutes a day is enough to make real progress. Lectures are recorded and rewatchable any time.
Membership is hosted on Skool — pick your tier on the plans page and you get instant access to the community, classroom, weekly live sessions, and the curriculum.
Not at all — members join from all over. Surveying fundamentals (geodetics, GNSS, photogrammetry) are universal. State-specific content (US licensing paths, NTRIP networks) is clearly marked so you can skip what doesn't apply.
Active members unlock real industry tools — including a free 12-month Pix4Dmatic Pro + Pix4Dcatch Pro license at Level 6 and a free Emlid GNSS receiver shipped to your door at Level 7. Levels are earned by helping other members, not bought. See how the levels work →
Yes — and that's the point. You're not one, so the people teaching you had better be. Rami is a Professional Surveyor and PhD candidate in Geodetic Engineering at Ohio State. Joe Nelson is a PLS and Project Manager at BKF Engineers with 14+ years in the field. Joseph Kerski has a PhD in Geography and was Education Manager at Esri. We don't hire content creators — we hire people who do the work.
Yes — the YouTube channel. There are 100,000+ subscribers there and hundreds of hours of real instruction, free. Membership also comes with 7 days to change your mind, so the paid step is a small one.
They really get it. 14 members have reached Level 7 and been shipped an Emlid GNSS receiver — real hardware, theirs to keep. Level 6 unlocks a 12-month Pix4Dmatic Pro license. Both are Premium perks, earned by taking part in the community and passing quizzes. See how the levels work →
Yes, and it's often the better way to buy. Accuracy problems are rarely one person's — if the field crew, the processor, and the project manager don't share the same vocabulary, the error just moves between them. Firms get an on-site training day, a year of the full program for every seat, and a manager view that shows who has actually learned it. See how it works for firms →
Yes. All Skool subscriptions cancel with one click. No contracts, no hoops, no hidden fees. You keep access through the end of your billing period.
New lectures every week. Existing courses get updates whenever a tool, workflow, or regulation meaningfully changes — surveying is a moving target and the curriculum keeps up.
Both. Recorded lectures cover the curriculum at your pace. Weekly live Q&A and Office Hours sessions are where you can ask the instructors anything — your survey, your data, your stuck point. Members also help each other in the community feed.