1| VOLUME 78 ISSUE 2 | NOVEMBER The Impact of Modern Topo-Geodetic Technologies on Positioning Techniques Mircea Emil NAP 1,2* , Petre Iuliu DRAGOMIR 2 , Silvia CHIOREAN 1 , Jutka DEAK 1 , Ioan LUPUȚ 1 , Diana FICIOR 1 1 Faculty of Horticulture, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 3-5 Mănăștur St., 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2 Faculty of Geodesy, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, 122-124 Lacul Tei Blvd., 2nd District, 020396, Bucharest, Romania * Corresponding author: M. Nap, e-mail: mircea.nap@usamvcluj.ro REVIEW Abstract The field of constructions has evolved extraordinarily in terms of measurement techniques, requiring increasing accuracy. This has led to the creation of new specific technologies, and implicitly measuring instruments. The range of classical geodetic measuring instruments has been completed with new high precision instruments, even in the field of physics or machine building. The use of geodetic measurement methods in the field of Engineering Topographic Measurement Techniques involves, in addition to ensuring precision requirements, the choice of appropriate devices and technologies. This choice is imposed both by the previous precision calculations, starting from a maximum permissible deviation given, and by the knowledge of the execution and assembly technologies. The purpose of this paper was to study the effect and also the impact that new technologies had on the main measurement activities, and of course on measurement techniques. This review article summarizes, analyzes and discusses the current state of primary research in terms of the impact of current or developing technologies on geodetic techniques. The global corpus of primary research is growing at an unprecedented rate. It is difficult for most researchers to grasp the state of the art of a topic. A vast number of bibliographic references were taken into account, on which analyzes were performed. Keywords: development; technology; techniques. INTRODUCTION In the present review study, the term “positioning” was used both with the meaning of marking, field application and the meaning of position determination. The technical-topographic study is carried out in the elaboration phase of the construction project, and refers to the topographic survey of the construction surface, to the topographic plans on large scales, these being necessary for the design and topographic preparation of the project for field application. (Coșarcă, 2003; Coșarcă, 2009; Onose et al., 2015). Both automation and quality safety and also, quality control in the field of machine construction, are part of the category of new terms in Geodesy. One of the key points of this sector is to determine the exact position in space of the defining points on different objects, using indirect measurement methods. (Arsene et al., 2016; Ortelecan et al., 2016). The nature of the measurements, the area of the object or space to be measured, the required accuracy and, of course, the allocated budget, are the factors that influence the selection of a certain type of technology for data recording, project execution, or study. It can be stated that, at present, in the field of construction and in most branches of industry, the geodetic activity is indispensable for the positioning or technological assembly of some buildings, equipment or machinery. (Dragomir and Clinici, 2014; Dragomir et al., 2015) Received: 30 October 2020 Accepted: 12 June 2021 Published: 15 November 2021 DOI: 15835/buasvmcn-hort:2020.0066 © 2021 Authors. The papers published in this journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License