This deliverable is part of the H2020 CSA IM-SAFE project and is the outcome of the first task of work package 4 (Digitalisation as enabling technology, task 4.1: Data acquisition and quality assurance). It will help to set the basis of the proposal for the mandate to the European Committee for Standardization (CEN).

This document provides a review of a particular seleciton of surveying technologies, including their main aspects with reference to the information that they collect. Then an insight on how those data should be managed and the security behind the platforms used is given.