A survey team or survey party was a specialized group sent to survey a planet on a survey mission, often prior to colonization. They took note of geological and biological oddities. (ENT: "Bound")
A.E. Hodgkin first visited Loracus Prime as part of a science survey mission. (ENT: "Strange New World")
In September 2152 Captain Jonathan Archer planned to lead a survey team to the surface of an uninhabited planet but had to abort the mission due to a neutronic storm. (ENT: "The Catwalk")
In 2369, Galen compared Jean-Luc Picard, who was on a survey mission, to a Roman centurion patrolling for the Empire. (TNG: "The Chase")
In early 2373, Captain Benjamin Sisko led a survey team from Deep Space 9 to the cormaline-rich Gamma Quadrant planet Torga IV. (DS9: "The Ship")
Deanna Troi told Zefram Cochrane that the Vulcans who made the First Contact with the Humans in Bozeman, Montana in 2063 were on a survey mission and had no interest in Earth, finding it to be too primitive. (Star Trek: First Contact)
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- Survey team at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works