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Shane Nafe
Co-founder & President, MTX Surveying Texas, USA As the president and co-founder of MTX Surveying, Shane Nafe led the company from 2 employees to 18, with more growth expected this year. His business partner says that he has excelled faster than most professionals his age thanks to his outstanding technical abilities and leadership skills. When...
Tharcille Dukuzemariya
Assistant Lecturer, INES-Rhuhengeri Rhuhengeri, Rwanda Tharcille Dukuzemariya earned her bachelor’s in land surveying at the Institute of Applied Sciences, the University in Rhuhengeri, Rwanda, then her master’s at the Université de Liège in Belgium. She is now an assistant lecturer at her alma mater in Rhuhengeri. Dukuzemariya has co-authored an important paper from a study...
Weekly xyHt News Links: 1/11/2019
Gradual Distribution of Space Power among Nations of the World LocusLabs Partners with IndoorAtlas to Provide Precise Indoor Location-Based Experiences Sprint Curiosity™ IoT Helps Smart Mobile Machines Get Smarter Using Mapbox Precision Mapping Autonomous car hits autonomous robot in bizarre collision Apollo Robotics Unveils Revolutionary Autonomous Surveyor Drone Platform at CES 2019 Successful Launch of...
New Gold Standard for GPS
GPS users help map habitat along the Bear River for the Bear River Land Conservancy in Utah on June 7, 2017. Credit: Kirk Earl. As accurate GNSS data becomes democratized, there’s still a place to stand out in the industry. The long-established GPS industry has been facing a massive technological disruption for the past five...
Geomatics at UAA
Above: Matt Santiago, current UAA geomatics student, is perfecting his surveying technique in the “classroom,” i.e. the South Fork of Chester Creek on UAA’s campus. The University of Alaska, Anchorage’s Geomatics Department continues to grow and place all its students in jobs at graduation. Matt Santiago arrived in Alaska wearing Air Force blue. When he...
PS Exam Changes
The Principles & Practice of Land Surveying exam has upcoming changes, effective January 2019. Almost every land surveyor who has gained professional licensure in the past 50 years has likely taken two exams created and administered by The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). NCEES is a “nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing...
