Category Archives: Surveying

Modern Surveying: It’s Time to Bury the Dead Presidents

By John M. Palatiello How would you respond if asked to name a famous surveyor? Here’s what prompted me to think about this. In October 2014 at the NSPS leadership meeting in Overland Park, Kansas during the joint Kansas and Missouri surveyors’ conference, my firm arranged for representative Kevin Yoder (R-KS) to address the then-NSPS...

eLearning & the Benefits of Self-paced Learning

By Michelle Rasmussen Many companies are augmenting the traditional, classroom training offered to employees with self-paced, online learning courses. This type of learning offers compelling benefits to both employers and employees. It’s time geospatial companies joined in. Business Benefits From a business perspective, self-paced learning is powerful for three reasons: it increases employee engagement, lowers...

Oscar Cantu and Gavin Schrock

Topcon’s HiPer HR Rover Plays Hard Ball

Topcon’s HiPer HR Rover is part of a completely new surveying system. You’re probably going to hear a lot about a new multi-product release from Topcon; they’ve taken an interesting approach by announcing four integrated products all at once–a complete new surveying system. This includes a new flagship total station (with an ultrasonic drive), a...

Higher-ed Profile: Curtin University

Department of Spatial Sciences By Bert Veenendaal, PhD The Department of Spatial Sciences at Curtin University is recognized throughout Australia for providing leading university-level teaching and research programs in surveying, GIS, remote sensing, mine and engineering surveying, and related areas. It consists of a motivated and enthusiastic team of internationally experienced educators and researchers who...

Higher-ed Profile: Idaho State University

Surveying and Geomatics Engineering Technology By Adam Thayer One of the many things I enjoy about this program at Idaho State University (ISU) is the history and investigations involved with surveying, specifically boundary surveying. There is nothing quite like finding an original stone or visiting a monument that hasn’t been uncovered since it was originally...

Higher-ed Profile: California Polytechnic University, Pomona

Geospatial Engineering Program By Dr. Francelina A. Neto, PLS The Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering offers 11 undergraduate and five Master of Science degree programs housed in seven departments. Serving over 5,000 students, the college is the 17th largest in the nation. The civil engineering department currently has two programs: Civil Engineering (CE) and...