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I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Statistics
Surveying Statistics, Part 1 Do you perform GNSS surveys? Do you use OPUS or perform RTK surveys simply because you don’t understand your software’s output? Do you always use the compass-rule adjustment for traverse data simply because that’s the way you have always done it? Do you ever have a situation where you know something...
A Global Geodetic Roadmap
Above: Ambassador Peter Thomson, Fiji’s permanent representative to the United Nations, presents to the General Assembly the resolution titled, “A global geodetic reference frame for sustainable development.” The United Nations takes up the call to develop a global geodetic reference frame for sustainable international relief and development. Geospatial technologies that have quickly become commonplace and essential in industrialized...
xyHt News Links: 05/15/15
Antennas Developed at SD Mines are First to Use Phase-Changing Material to Alter Shapes, Frequencies Teledyne Optech’s next-generation CMS V500 Cavity Monitoring System released GIM International Announces New Event: GIM International Summit
Easy Park Datasets
Above: Isometric view of 3D model of centralized benches, barbeques, and gazebos at Prescott National Forest. Collecting lidar data for as-built plans opt a busy national forest recreation site The Prescott National Forest (PNF) is a 1.25-million acre United States National Forest located in north central Arizona, with more than 20 developed recreation sites and an...
Proving Ancient Measurement Methods
Surveying students calculate the Earth’s circumference by following Eratosthene’s method, with help from modern sources. As part of the Geodetic and Control Surveys class at Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis, Minnesota, we have been studying the history of Eratosthenes and how he calculated the circumference of the Earth. As a class we decided to...
Should We Be Reading Maps or Moving Forward?
There has been a lot of press recently about an announcement from the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) declaring that “Society is being sedated by software,” and it would appear that most of the media have jumped on board, like the BBC, The Guardian, even the Western Morning News. I have to agree with them...
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