Exploration, surveying, and investigation – what are the differences between these terms?
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What are the differences between exploration, surveying, and investigation? It can be explained through definition, or it’s better to give examples.
In fact, investigation and exploration can be used interchangeably. Explanation in modern Chinese dictionaries: Survey: to conduct on-site investigations or inspections (often used before mining or construction work), also known as exploration. My understanding is that investigation is more used for examining human aspects, while exploration is more used for investigating natural elements. The specific tasks involve surveying and exploration. The simplest difference between surveying and exploration is that in surveying, human beings are used to examine the quality of the soil, while in exploration, machinery is used for that purpose
Exploration: Refers specifically to on-site drilling and sampling. Surveying: Involves comprehensive on-site inspections over a large area. Surveying: Also involves some tasks that involve rechecking things. This is just my personal understanding; it’s for reference only.
Exploration: I understand it to mean searching for minerals. For example, if you are given a piece of land and want to know what can be mined there, you need to hire people to carry out exploration work; CNPC Dongfang Geophysical Company is one such company that does this kind of work. This should not belong to the field of engineering design. Surveying: This falls under the field of engineering design; it involves drilling and sampling on-site, conducting measurements, and preparing a geological survey report. Only then can the structural engineers at the design firm use this report to create the designs. Survey: I’m sorry, I haven’t heard of it.
Exploration: The situation is unknown; investigate to find out. Survey: Existing data, based on inspection. Exploration: regional geological surveys, marine geological surveys, exploration for petroleum, natural gas, and mineral resources, exploration for liquid mineral resources (excluding petroleum), exploration for gaseous mineral resources (excluding natural gas), exploration for solid mineral resources, hydrogeological, engineering geological, and environmental geological surveys, geochemical exploration, as well as qualifications for geological drilling.
Resource exploration, engineering surveying, and geological exploration have different objects, purposes, and methods