February 2013 Archives
Student Essay Contest: The Need for Surveyors Is Always Going to be There
Student Essay Contest Finalist Land surveying is the process by which land is surveyed and measured using mathematical means. The history of land surveying dates back thousands of years. Technology has come a long way since the Jacob staff, and the working man knows there are different tools used to accomplish certain jobs in the […]
Student Essay Contest: Think about the Generations That Will Benefit From These Improvements
Student Essay Contest Finalist Every time there is a project, surveyors are the first to enter and the last to leave the project site. It is our duty, basically, to gather information and provide it. That information is needed to build, locate, or define something. The moment I started thinking about the future of surveying, […]
Student Essay Contest: Is Lidar on Your Radar?
Student Essay Contest Finalist The future of surveying has arrived. New technologies have been introduced and old ones have advanced. With the advent of mobile internet access, public interest in mapping has increased. The last decade has not only transformed our capabilities, but also our expectations. As a geomatics student preparing to graduate from The […]
Guest Essay: Build the Future
In seeking views on the future of surveying, who better to ask than those who will shape that future? Here is a response from Eva-Maria Unger, the current secretary of the FIG Young Surveyors Network. Eva-Maria is 26 years old and from Vienna, Austria. She graduated with a master’s degree in 2011 in surveying and […]
Guest Essay: Absolutely Exciting
If you ask Jeff Baldwin about the future of surveying, he will respond with wide-eyed enthusiasm. Licensed in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania and a licensed engineer in New Jersey to boot, Jeff has three decades of multi-disciplined experience in dealing with the sometimes-harsh realities of our profession, but that doesn’t stop him from looking […]
Guest Essay: A Spatial Science
This young PhD candidate from “down under” offers his insights into the role of surveying in what he sees as a boom in “geospatial sciences.” Grant Hausler is completing his PhD at The University of Melbourne and Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI). His research explores technical, commercial, and governance issues affecting the development […]