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Leveraging the Land Surveying Role, Part 3
The economics of land surveying Editor’s note: This past May, Ambrose Gmeiner completed his Professional Science Masters Degree from the University of Maine. His final paper, The Land Surveyor as a Project Lead and Providing Professional Testimony, is the source for this series of articles on increasing the skills, strengths, and credentials of the professional...
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Delair-Tech Announces Acquisition of Trimble’s US drone company Applanix Announces POSPac MMS 8 Featuring Post-Processed Trimble CenterPoint RTX Service for High-Accuracy Mobile Mapping Brand-new Optech Polaris terrestrial laser scanner launches at INTERGEO 2016 Teledyne Optech unveils the ultra-light Maverick for mobile asset mapping Orbit GT unveils Mobile Mapping Feature Extraction v17 features microdrones™ Offers Full...
Dyan Gibbens: Founder and CEO of Trumbull Unmanned
Women in Unmanned Systems Editor’s Note: In our ongoing effort to promote geospatial professions, we’re asking dynamic leaders what attracted them to UAS and other geospatial fields as well as advice they might have for young people considering choosing related career paths. From an early age, I knew I would pursue some sort of career...
Mars Colonization: Mars Needs Surveyors!
Elon Musk’s plan to make us a space-faring and multi-planetary species will provide another planet to survey. Late last month, SpaceX’s founder Elon Musk unveiled his plan to start Mars colonization by 2025. Musk believes passionately that for humankind to survive in the long run, we must become a space-faring and multi-planetary species. Sooner or later,...
Coordinates: The Rodney Dangerfield of Boundary Surveying
Although my entire surveying career has been in California, I believe that the following is true in almost every, if not every, state. With regards to the Priority of Evidence Rules (Rule of Construction), when conflicting elements exist when determining boundary location, coordinates are always at the bottom of the list. In my 30 years...
The Green Monsters of GPavin
An interview with the director of the GPS Directorate Col. Steven P. Whitney recently answered questions about the mission of the directorate, and he debunked a popular myth about the GPS constellation. Colonel Steven Whitney is the director of the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space...
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