Land Surveying Services & Capabilities

Joe Orr, Inc is a professional land surveying company based in College Station, Texas. In January 2014, JOI came under the ownership of Baseline Corporation, an independent subsidiary of Binkley & Barfield, Inc. This unique corporate position ensures continuity with our clients and carries forward the reputation we have built over the past 50 years. We are proud of our quick response time, quality surveys, and personal level of service. JOI can provide many surveying & mapping services, including:

• Boundary Surveys
• Easement Surveys
• Land Title / ALTA Surveys
• Land Division / Development Surveys
• Right-of-Way Parcel Surveys
• Topographic Surveys
• Preliminary and Final Platting
• Improvement Surveys
• As-Built Surveys
• Utility Route Surveys
• Horizontal and Vertical Control Surveys
• GPS Network Surveys
• Photogrammetry Control Surveys
• Digital Scanning / Deformation Surveys
• Tree Location Surveys
• GIS Data Collection & Mapping
• Construction Staking
• Accident and Forensic Surveys

You can download our Statement of Qualifications for more information.

21st-Century Technology

JOI has always been a leader in the use of technology without forgetting the essential fundamentals upon which we base the art and science of surveying. In the 1960s, large investments were made in programmable calculators and one of the first Swiss electronic distance meters in the United States. This has continued with the use of photogrammetry, computers and plotters in the 1970s and 80s, and GPS and a robotic total station in the 1990s. Today, we are working with laser scanning and other types of remote sensing technology, including generating digital terrain models from data collected by drone. JOI has always invested in high quality surveying instruments such as Wild and Leica from Switzerland and Hewlett-Packard from the United States. Some of the specific technologies we use today include:

• Leica total stations
• Leica GPS with real-time and post-processed accuracy enhancements
• AutoCAD Civil 3D
• an array of free & open-source GIS software, including QGIS & other OSGeo projects
• digital aerial imagery techniques
• Google Earth integration