Topographic engineering is a branch of engineering aimed at promoting the production and appropriation of knowledge and study of topography, providing scientific-environmental education in the search for understanding information about the earth, rationality in the use of natural resources and environmental conservation. It contributes to the sustainable development of the country, through a research culture that allows the formation of a comprehensive, analytical, critical professional capable of proposing solutions to the social problems of the environment in which he or she is immersed. The topographical engineering professional is trained to interact with other work groups in the field of his or her competence, to work at the levels of planning, organization, direction and execution in the areas of Geomatics, Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, Geodesy, Topography, Photogrammetry and related sciences, with the aim of establishing the geographical and geometric framework of reference in all projects in which these disciplines are applied.

"Thanks to his understanding of the earth resource and because topography is a science on which many professions depend for their realization, the Topographic Engineer is also able to manage, administer, direct, design and implement civil works projects that are more within his competence, such as road works, tunnels, aqueducts and sewers, pipelines, polyducts, gas pipelines, irrigation and drainage, dams, reservoirs, slope stabilization, earthworks, pit mining. open and underground, as well as carry out the audit of the previous ones.

On the other hand, it also carries out modeling and simulation of natural phenomena, gravimetric measurements, cadastre, territorial planning, design and implementation of geographic information systems, databases, generation of cartography, seismic exploration, seismic prospecting, design and implementation of mineral and oil resource projects, design and implementation of global positioning systems in real time, processing and analysis of satellite information "Images" as well as generation of products derived from it; Its field of action is unlimited since the land resource is the essence of many professions and this professional does not depend on others for its understanding and manipulation.

Thanks to technological advances, it has better tools for its job such as Satellites, Radars, Lidar Technology as well as advanced programs, among others.

“Nano-Micro and Macrotopography” Topography, over time thanks to technological advances and the needs for a better understanding and use of the earth resource and its applications in other fields, evolved to Topographic Engineering which finally in other countries has been transformed into Geomatic Engineering, whose field of action is very broad and of which its father is a French scientist “Topographer and Photogrammetrist”. It is the Engineering of Engineering"².