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FieldNotes: Legislative Priorities for Surveyors
Q&A with NSPS Legislative Affairs consultant John Palatiello FieldNotes: To anyone involved with the National Society of Professional Surveyors [NSPS] in the past few decades, your name rings a bell. How so? John Palatiello: I had the honor of being the first ACSM Government Affairs director, beginning in 1982. I was hired off Capitol Hill...
xyHt links: 1/30/15
Offshore Survey Launches Cutting Edge Conference Programme GIS in the Rockies 2015 FalconScan Launches Aerial Mapping System GeoMax Releases New GNSS Receiver ArcGIS 10.3 and ArcGIS Pro Modernize GIS for Organizations and Enterprises Six Galileo Satellites Planned for 2015 Launch Optech announces opening of registration and call for papers for ILSC 2015 DAT/EM Systems International...
Survey Web Tools
How to use them for land survey planning and reconnaissance. When I first used GNSS, it was my usual practice to go to the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) website to gather the data sheets for control monuments in the vicinity of my project area. I would plot these in a program called TopoScout, a topographic...
GNSS Antennas that Protect and Observe
Editor’s note: Public awareness of the potential for interference and jamming has rightfully increased over the past few years; due partially to at least one high profile incident each of “trucker jammers,” news of battlefield jamming, the jamming event along the North Korean border, and an inadvertent interference instance of naval origin in San Diego....
Transportation
Traffic Analysis in Real Time Until recently, geospatial experts have been unable to truly record traffic data because there hasn’t been a way to get a near-perfect record of traffic data at the lane level. Yet, it’s more evident now than ever that the need for near-perfect data is becoming a critical requirement for the...
Geographers’ Tour – On Intersections: Vancouver
A comment came by on Twitter recently saying, “Geographers always want window seats on planes and trains,” and it was a big Favorite. We understood because geographers are living spatial scanning machines, a constantly analyzing nexus of the places, spaces, connections, patterns, and relationships that surround them. Thriving on constant extrinsic access to the world,...
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