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Common Research Mistakes Surveyors Make, Part 2

Road Records, Easements, and Probate Records In a previous article (July 2015) I explain two of the five common mistakes made by surveyors in researching the records: mistakes made in determining senior title and the deficiency existing when a forward search is omitted. The remaining of the five common mistakes often made by surveyors are...

Forty-five feet below its final resting place, the top of the steel roof of Deep Space will be covered by layers of concrete and earth.

Raising the Roof

A survey company changes its tactics to monitor an auditorium roof before, during, and after its lift into place, using teamwork and true professionalism. American Surveying & Engineering, P.C. (with corporate headquarters in Chicago, Illinois) was approached by JP Cullen (a contractor with headquarters in Janesville, Wisconsin) with a challenging project: a particularly tricky auditorium...

xyHt News Links: 9/25/15

FARO Releases New Handheld 3D Laser Scanner Applanix Introduces Two New Solutions for High Productivity Land-Based Mobile Mapping, Autonomy & Field Robotics Applications Applanix Introduces New Entry-Level Direct Georeferencing Solution for Airborne Mapping Applications Broadcom Offers New GNSS Chip for Internet of Things Topcon Releases iOS Version of MAGNET Construct App Reception to Unveil Restored...

“A survey vessel with the RTK Bridge installed served as our base, capturing and rebroadcasting RTK network corrections to our second vessel equipped with a rover.”

Going for the Long Shot

Intuicom’s RTK Bridge has come a long way, including use for hydrographic surveying.  Editor’s note: A product name can become a default term for a particular solution; this is the case with the RTK Bridge, a trademark name for the product that Intuicom, radio communications component company, began working on nearly a decade ago. And...

This visualization is of the high volume of commercial shipping activity into and out of ports rimming the Pacific Ocean. The data were analyzed using Esri’s new GIS Tools for Hadoop toolkit. Visualization by Mansour Raad, Esri. Available online at coolmaps.esri.com/BigData/ShippingGlobe with any browser running WebGL.

Hydro Insights

This visualization is of the high volume of commercial shipping activity into and out of ports rimming the Pacific Ocean. The data were analyzed using Esri’s new GIS Tools for Hadoop toolkit. Visualization by Mansour Raad, Esri. Available online at coolmaps.esri.com/BigData/ShippingGlobe with any browser running WebGL. Part 1: Uncharted Depths Editor’s Note: xyHt is honored to...

xyHt News Links: 9/18/15

Septentrio launches its newest receiver: the AsteRx-U Leica GS14 GNSS features new hybrid communication technology EIVA launches software solution for shallow water surveys Hemisphere GNSS’ Atlas™ and AtlasLink™ Make Trade Show Debut at InterGEO 2015 Teledyne Optech launches Lynx SG-S mobile surveying solution Topcon introduces new 3D scanners New RIEGL VZ-400i Laser Scanner FAA Issues Surdex...

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