All articles starting with S

Surveillance

Surveillance: systematic monitoring of people, communications, or workplaces by employers, governments, and companies. Covers workplace monitoring tools and effects, DHS and FBI practices, FISA Section 702, oversight, and privacy-enhancing technologies.

Surveillance aircraft

A surveillance aircraft, also called an observation aircraft, is a military or civilian aircraft, crewed or remotely piloted, fitted with sensors to observe and report activity in near real time.

Surveillance capitalism

Surveillance capitalism is an economic order named by Shoshana Zuboff in which firms claim human experience as free raw material and sell behavioral predictions, beginning at Google in the early 2000s.

Surveillance colonoscopy

Surveillance colonoscopy is the repeated colonoscopic examination at set intervals of people at increased risk of colorectal cancer, including those after polyp removal, with IBD, or with hereditary syndromes.

Sep 23, 2026

Surveillance Commissioner (anchashi)

The Surveillance Commissioner (按察使) was a Tang-dynasty circuit-level envoy who oversaw the performance of local officials, denouncing corrupt or negligent ones, and was often held concurrently by prefects.

Surveillance culture

A surveillance culture is a microbiology test that detects colonization by multidrug-resistant organisms such as MRSA, VRE, and Candida auris in patients without infection signs, guiding isolation and decolonization.

Surveillance pricing

Surveillance pricing, also called individualized pricing, is a form of algorithmic pricing in which sellers use personal data like browsing history and location to tailor prices to individuals.

Survex

Survex is a free, open-source cave surveying package started in 1990 by Olly Betts and Wookey, with the cavern processor and aven viewer, native .svx data, and Therion loop-closure integration.

Survey (archaeology)

Survey in archaeology, also called archaeological field survey, is the systematic examination of a landscape without excavation to find and record surface traces of past human activity, such as pottery and lithics.

Survey design

Survey design is the plan governing how a survey selects its sample, what it asks, and how answers are collected, so sample numbers describe the larger population accurately.

Survey experiment

A survey experiment is an experiment in which both randomization and treatment occur inside a survey questionnaire, so differences between randomly assigned respondent groups reflect the treatment itself.

Survey methodology

Survey methodology is the field of statistics and social science that studies how to collect data from samples of people, covering sample design, questionnaires, and nonsampling errors.

Survey of Consumer Finances

The Survey of Consumer Finances is a triennial survey of US families sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board, the primary source of household wealth data.

Survey of English Dialects

Survey of English Dialects (SED), directed by Harold Orton with Eugen Dieth, a 1950–1961 University of Leeds survey of traditional English dialects in 313 rural localities using a 1,092-question questionnaire, published 1962–1978.

Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a panel survey interviewing people aged 50 and over about health, economics, and social networks across Europe and Israel.

Survey of Income and Program Participation

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a longitudinal household survey run by the U.S. Census Bureau since 1983, tracking income, employment, and government program participation.

Survey propagation

Survey propagation is a message-passing algorithm from statistical physics, introduced by Mézard and Zecchina in 2002 to solve hard random K-SAT instances near the satisfiability threshold.

Survey Research Methods

Survey research methods are the procedures for questioning a representative sample of a population and the statistical techniques for designing studies, collecting data, and measuring error.

Survey vessel

A survey vessel, also called a survey ship, is a ship or boat fitted with sonar for measuring water depth and mapping the seafloor for nautical charts.

Survey weighting

Survey weighting assigns numerical weights to survey records so sample estimates describe the target population rather than the sample itself, compensating for unequal selection probabilities, nonresponse, and coverage problems.

Surveying

Surveying determines property boundaries, elevations, and feature positions by measuring angles, distances, and satellite signals. Covers total stations, GNSS, LiDAR, accuracy comparisons, and ALTA/NSPS, BLM, and RICS standards.

Surveying in North America

Surveying in North America is the practice of measuring property boundaries and land positions, carried out through systems like the US Public Land Survey System and Canada's Dominion Land Survey.

Surveying Ships' Squadron

The Surveying Ships' Squadron was the Royal Navy's organized flotilla of hydrographic surveying ships, the direct descendant of the Surveying Service founded in 1817 within the Admiralty's Hydrographic Department.

SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey, formerly traded as Momentive Global, is an online survey platform founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, now owned by Symphony Technology Group.

Surveyor 1

Surveyor 1 was an American robotic lunar lander that successfully performed the first United States soft landing on the Moon in the Ocean of Storms on June 2, 1966.

Surveyor 3

Surveyor 3 was an American uncrewed lunar lander that landed in Oceanus Procellarum in April 1967 and was visited by the Apollo 12 crew in 1969.

Oct 20, 2026

Surveyor Linea

Surveyor Linea is a 217-km-long linea (elongate marking) on Pluto at 22.61°N, 329.52°E, named for NASA's 1966-1968 Surveyor lunar probes and adopted by the IAU on April 11, 2023.

Survivable Airborne Operations Center

The Survivable Airborne Operations Center is a US Air Force program replacing the E-4B Nightwatch with the E-4C, a 747-8 command post built by Sierra Nevada Corporation.

Survival (Doctor Who)

Survival is the final serial of classic Doctor Who, Season 26 (production code 7P), broadcast 22 November to 6 December 1989; written by Rona Munro, it features the Seventh Doctor, Ace, and the Master and closes the original 1963-1989 run.