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Utility Management Vegetation

Managing vegetation around America’s electric transmission and distribution infrastructure is crucial for ensuring uninterrupted power delivery. Utility Vegetation Management (UVM) is highly complex and represents a significant cost burden on utility operations and maintenance (O&M) budgets. This includes essential tasks such as tree trimming near power lines, which are critical for service reliability, grid resiliency,...

The Future of Geospatial Data Demands a New Approach to Management

Geospatial data serves as the foundation for many mission-critical and time-sensitive applications, including Earth observation, location-based services, defense, population health, and more. However, geospatial data is not just one thing and can be quite heterogeneous, coming in many different forms including point clouds (e.g., lidar and sonar); polygons (e.g. buildings and areas of interest), and...

The Business of Surveying

Land surveyors need to be in the field to do their work. They also need to be in the office to run their business. Does something have to give?