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Feature: UAS and the FAA
What exactly is the current legal state of using UAS in the United States for surveyors versus hobbyists? What’s the big deal about the National Airspace System? What should surveyors do to prepare to use UAS? Few topics in the geospatial community are as fraught with misunderstanding and misinformation as the topic of unmanned aerial...
Feature: National Surveyors Week 2014
Collaboration among Pennsylvania surveyors exemplifies the spirit of the National Height Modernization campaign. The Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors (PSLS) recently launched a new initiative known as PSLS Reaching New Heights (PRNH). This initiative expands upon the National Geodetic Survey’s (NGS) GPS on Bench Marks Campaign (see sidebar at far right) and will be used...
Editor’s Desk: A New Magazine
Like so many ideas in surveying, this one started over a beer at a great little Irish pub with friends, where we discussed what the landscape of surveying might look like in the not-so-distant future. I figure, during the course of almost 50 years that I’ve been a geodetic surveyor, virtually all parts of our...
QGIS v ArcGIS: the Rematch?
Thank you to all of you who commented and discussed my last QGIS v ArcGIS article. Many of you pointed at some of the perspective taken with the article, for example, there was mention that it wasn’t fair as ArcServer wasn’t tested or that the 3D tools weren’t compared. Yes, you are correct, it would...
xyHt news links: 02/27/2015
Former Governor Geringer Leads Panel Calling on Congress and Governors to Make NSDI a High Priority MAPPS Supports FAA Proposal on UAS Blue Marble Offers Free Global Mapper Training and User Certification in 2015 with Re-vamped Training Program SkyIMD and Phase One Industrial Announce SkyIMD’s Introduction of FAA-Approved Mounts Google’s recent deprecations ‘not cataclysmic’ Early...
ASPRS Engages States
Above: State Licensure Map – Authoritative Imagery ASPRS Launches New Initiative to Engage States as They Consider Regulating Photogrammetry under Existing Surveying Laws At the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing’s (ASPRS) November 2014 fall conference in Denver, Colorado, ASPRS announced its “Licensure Plan for the State Licensing of Photogrammetrists” initiative. ASPRS recognizes an immediate...
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