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Scanning vs Surveying - What's the difference?

scanning | surveying |

As verbs the difference between scanning and surveying

is that scanning is while surveying is .

As nouns the difference between scanning and surveying

is that scanning is the act of something being scanned while surveying is the science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.

scanning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something being scanned.
  • * 1994 , IGIC, Inc. Staff, Fiber Optic Sensors (page 147)
    • In the other case the scanner performs a given number of scannings , thus giving an automatic display of the complete set of measuring points.

    surveying

    English

    (wikipedia surveying)

    Noun

  • The science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.

    • Verb

    (head)