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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...
xyHt News Links: 2/20/15
DAT/EM Summit Evolution compatible with Blue Marble’s Global Mapper NOAA study uses latest technology to compute updated Washington Monument height LizardTech Releases Updated GeoViewer for Windows Application FAA Proposes New Rules for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Bentley Systems Takes over Acute3D GISCI Announces Changes to the GISP Certification Process MAPPS Fall Conference to be held in...
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...
Legal UAS
Until the final FAA rules are in place for UAS incorporation in national airspace, the Section 333 exemption petition process is the only way to legally fly UAS for commercial applications in the United States. In late 2014, Government Accounting Office (GAO) stated, “The consensus of opinion is the integration of unmanned systems will likely...
The Note
From this crest of the Grand River Basin, near Byers Canyon, Colorado, the survey crew of Igor Kidinsky, aka Eager (The Kid), and Glenny Dale, aka Glutton (The Old Man), can view the same grandeur as the first survey crew who stood here 130 years ago, imagine the same thoughts, and make the same notes:...
NAVCEN
Take a tour of the real-time resource for civilian GPS. “Semper Paratus” (“Always Ready”) —United States Coast Guard Motto If you use GPS for surveying, you might have heard of NAVCEN. If not, then I highly recommend getting to know this valuable resource. As a land surveyor, you are accustomed to having a fair amount of...
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