All posts by Frank Lenik

Surveying Merit Badge

Surveying students jump into recruiting by hosting a surveying merit badge day. There are few challenges facing the profession of land surveying today that are as great as the need to revitalize our ranks with young and technologically savvy individuals. We all recognize the aging of our colleagues but cannot seem to identify the reasons...

FieldNotes: The Final Point

I used to joke with my wife that when I died I wanted a geodetic marker set at my grave so that I could continue to be of service to my profession.  I reasoned that my friends would come to visit me, and it had the added benefit that I could keep an eye on...

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...