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Finding and Preserving Lost Black Cemeteries
Finding and Preserving Lost Black Cemeteries - UAVs and ground-penetrating radar are making the work more successful and efficient
Hijacking Cartography
Maps as Art Artist Ed Fairburn loves collecting all sorts of antique ephemera, but he has a particular soft spot for maps, which he uses as a canvas to express his art. For example, in this ink work over a map of Brooklyn (based on Cram’s 1894 Universal Atlas), Fairburn draws a human face along...
Scanning the Iconic Burj Al Arab
Scanning the Iconic Burj Al Arab - An ambitious 3D scanning project captured one of the world’s unique hotels in detail to help shape its next chapter.
Ready, Set, Modernize
The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is modernizing the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) in the United States. The modernization involves significant updates to the official reference frames and vertical datum used across the country, affecting the entire geospatial industry. The ASPRS NSRS Modernization Working Group prepared this article to help prepare the geospatial industry for...
The Surveyor and the “Geodesy Crisis”
Surveyor’s Corner By Tim Burch To the average professional surveyor, the term “geodesy” does not exist in their everyday conversations about the business. While the use of state plane coordinates has expanded greatly with the development of GPS/GNSS receivers and RTK/RTN connectivity, the mathematics and “black magic” of geodesy remains an enigma to most of...
