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Pangaea: Regulated In and Out: How Drones Could Be Grounded Before They Take Off
Patience may be wearing thin for the Federal Aviation Administration to adopt regulations to use unmanned aerial systems (UAS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones. The pace to implement the Federal Aviation Reauthorization Act of 2012, which authorized the use of UASs, should be the least of the concerns for those who see UASs as...
FieldNotes: State Society Show Recaps
NJSPLS Conference By Bill Beardslee SurvCon 2013 was the 34th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors. Approximately 700 attendees, vendors, and guests experienced 23 continuing education workshops and several social events at Bally’s Park Place Hotel in Atlantic City. The workshops covered a variety of topics, including business...
FieldNotes: Legislative Priorities for Surveyors
Q&A with NSPS Legislative Affairs consultant John Palatiello FieldNotes: To anyone involved with the National Society of Professional Surveyors [NSPS] in the past few decades, your name rings a bell. How so? John Palatiello: I had the honor of being the first ACSM Government Affairs director, beginning in 1982. I was hired off Capitol Hill...
xyHt links: 1/30/15
Offshore Survey Launches Cutting Edge Conference Programme GIS in the Rockies 2015 FalconScan Launches Aerial Mapping System GeoMax Releases New GNSS Receiver ArcGIS 10.3 and ArcGIS Pro Modernize GIS for Organizations and Enterprises Six Galileo Satellites Planned for 2015 Launch Optech announces opening of registration and call for papers for ILSC 2015 DAT/EM Systems International...
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...
GNSS Antennas that Protect and Observe
Editor’s note: Public awareness of the potential for interference and jamming has rightfully increased over the past few years; due partially to at least one high profile incident each of “trucker jammers,” news of battlefield jamming, the jamming event along the North Korean border, and an inadvertent interference instance of naval origin in San Diego....
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