The Egyptian General Authority for Surveying

The Egyptian General Authority for Surveying plays a vital role in supporting the ongoing construction and urbanization efforts, including major national projects, regional roads, and development corridors. The Authority performs the necessary surveying and topographic elevation works required for these projects. In addition, it provides a range of services to citizens and various state entities through property inventory, supplying topographic maps, and other related services.

The Surveying Authority carries out the required surveying works for major national projects, such as:
• The Agricultural Drainage Water Conveyance Path Project to Hammam Station.
• The New Suez Canal Project.
• New cities (New Administrative Capital – New Alamein City – Sphinx City).
• The Zafarana Wind Power Generation Station Project.
• The Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant for electricity generation.
• Numerous transportation projects, including the new road network, the high-speed electric train between the New Administrative Capital, Al-Salam City, and 10th of Ramadan City, and the Monorail project between Giza City, Sheikh Zayed City, and 6th of October City.- The Authority also participates in the presidential “Decent Life” (Hayah Kareema) initiative, contributing to 4,214 sites across various governorates of the Republic up to the date of this information.

– The Authority implements surveying works for the urban boundaries project covering cities, villages, hamlets, farmsteads, and settlements nationwide, encompassing 223 cities and 25,083 villages, hamlets, farmsteads, and settlements, executed in 4 implementation phases.
– The Surveying Authority offers numerous services to citizens and various state entities through property inventory, provision of topographic maps, and other services. It produces topographic maps at various scales essential for planning national projects, urban planning, population censuses, utility connections, and fulfilling the mapping needs of state agencies and the private sector. These maps are provided in both digital and paper formats.
– The Authority also contributes to demarcating and verifying administrative boundaries between governorates.

In the framework of inventorying state properties across various entities, the Authority has conducted and continues to conduct inventories for properties of certain state bodies, such as the Irrigation Department and Drainage Authority under the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, the Egyptian National Railways Authority, and properties in several governorates of the Republic. It has also established a spatial database for endowment (Waqf) properties at the national level. Additionally, it contributes to identifying encroachments on public utilities and state lands through its participation in the State Land Recovery and Regularization Committee, where it has performed the required field inspections for nearly 64,000 requests and verified coordinates for 53,000 requests.
In pursuit of adopting the latest scientific technologies in satellite-based monitoring, the Authority has established a network of fixed satellite observation stations covering the Delta and Nile Valley, with the number increased to 42 fixed stations distributed across the Republic. These stations provide high-accuracy horizontal coordinates (X, Y) of less than 3 cm, and activation is underway to serve both the governmental and private sectors.