Category Archives: Surveying
Lisa-Jen Ferrato
Surveyor, McElhanney Land Surveys Ltd. Canada GoGeomatics organizes monthly get-togethers for young surveyors in different cities across Canada; Lisa-Jen Ferrato has been a GoGeomatics group leader in Edmonton since 2016, instrumental in bringing the community together for monthly networking events. According to one of her nominators, she’s also one of the most accomplished young geomatics...
Hui Li
Principal Research Engineer, Autodesk California, USA If you haven’t seen the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in your geospatial work, you soon will—talented and dedicated scientists like Hui Li are busy making that a reality. An R&D team lead in the office of the chief technology officer at Autodesk, Hui is a PhD...
Kazuaki Fujii
President, Cadastral Surveyor Fujii Kazuaki Office, Japan President of his own firm, offering land and house investigations in Hyogo Prefecture of Japan, Kazuaki Fujii is also active in professional surveying organizations, both domestic and international. Kazuaki is the chair of the Young Surveyors Network for Japan, where he promotes resources for new entrants, such as...
Watching the 4th Dimension
Tech tools for capturing change over time are changing… over time. Editor’s note: “The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once” is the title of a poem by X. J. Kennedy. But what if we want to know—all at once—everything that has happened at a particular location over time, for engineering...
Kellen McNally
Owner, Productions on Point, New Jersey, USA Surveyors have a knack for noticing things out of place, out of plumb, and laid out poorly. Kellen McNally got the idea for Productions on Point while watching inefficient layout practices for entertainment festivals. Staging, tenting, lighting, sound, and power fixtures for festivals need to be precisely placed, especially...
Nicole Kinsman
Regional Advisor, National Geodetic Survey, NOAA/NOS Alaska, USA Alaska is a land of extremes, a land of both challenges and opportunities for the bold and adventurous. A combination of rapid plate tectonics, active volcanoes, glacial rebound, and remoteness makes mapping, surveying, and geodesy often extremely challenging. Nicole “Nic” Kinsman is the regional advisor for the...
