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xyHt Weekly News Recap: 10/22/2021
Geo Week Conference Program and Speaker Lineup Announced Alpine 4 Holdings Debuts on NASDAQ; Announces the Acquisition of Identified Technologies DGT Associates Launches Owned Subsurface Mobile Mapping System Esri Partners with The Ray to Map Solar Energy Hot Spots Proven Drone-Based Automatic Dent Inspection Maps an Entire Rafale Fighter Jet in Just One Hour What...
Policing Our Profession
Although my professional practice has been limited to California where we have a governing board of registration, I believe that model exists in every state. The mission and vision statements of the California Board of Registration for professional engineers, land surveyors, and geologists are quite succinct: Mission Statement: We protect the public’s safety and property...
Uncovering History
Cincinnati State students preserve a pre-European Native American historical site in Indiana Some members of the 2021 land surveying class at Cincinnati State have been busy bringing history back to life near the city of Lawrenceburg, Indiana. This team of students had the opportunity to survey the site of a village where indigenous people lived...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 10/08/2021
Registration Open for Trimble Dimensions User Conference Trimble Launches $200 Million Venture Fund Nearmap Expands Aerial Image Partnership with New Jersey RedTail Delivers Lidar System to DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal Community Vexcel Data Program Expands Aerial Imagery Collection Program to Japan Esri Releases ArcGIS GeoBIM, Bringing Spatial Context to AEC Operations Inpixon Releases Enhanced Indoor...
Incompetence V. Negligence
Do incompetence and negligence mean the same thing? If you check standard references on torts, it seems that while negligence is a stand-alone tort (a civil wrong), incompetence is not. Incompetence is sometimes referred to as an element of the tort of negligence and incompetents are sometimes put away for their own good and the...
Preserving Florida’s Sea Turtles
Technology helps track endangered marine life, saving sea turtles one nest at a time The sun is barely rising above the water along the Florida coastline, but groups of people are already walking the beach, notebooks in hand, eyes focused on the sand, pausing, kneeling, pointing. They are here as they are every spring to...
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