The term "rough survey" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe the initial, approximate gauge of how something may look or be received. For example, "I conducted a rough survey of the local opinion on the proposed tax increase and the results were not favorable."
I decided to take a rough survey.
So my rough survey was to apportion the main responsibility for error.
A rough survey of Dimuchong village comes up with a figure of more like 800.
Since the Hecelchakan-Cumpich road does not appear on the published 1 50,000 map, the delineation of it on the accompanying 1 125,000 access map had to be based on Graham's rough survey by compass and odometer.
The mountain holds an important place in the mythology and religious ritual of the local inhabitants, and its slopes were no doubt familiar to herdsmen and traders for centuries before a rough survey of it was made.
This is a fertile field, as we continue to see birds as poetic stimulants - my own rough survey, as chair of this year's Forward Poetry Prizes, has shown three times as many new poems on blackbirds as on the Iraq war and 9/11.
A handbook must be considered as well-composed if it addresses "all" issues of the area and if its individual articles provide rough surveys of their subject and point the reader to the relevant recent literature.
Russian exploration before 1785 had produced mainly rough surveys, largely restricted to the Aleutian Islands and mainland Alaska west of Cape Saint Elias.
Early explorations before the maritime fur trade era by Juan Pérez, Bruno de Heceta, Bogeda y Quadra, and James Cook produced only rough surveys of the coast's general features.
Paleo-environmental investigation of landscape transformation has enabled the Rough Cilicia Survey Project (south coastal Turkey) to supplement its archaeological analysis of the process of Romanization.
It is especially useful in surveying rough terrain where remote points have to be located between rocks and brush.
