Category Archives: Surveying
Ongoing Adventure
Mini-hydro surveying is wet, wild, and wonder-filled in the Scottish Highlands. When Scottish surveyor Stuart Ross heads to the Highlands to survey for one of the region’s many small-scale hydro schemes (mini-hydro), he always packs his camera. When the rain stops and the sky clears, he wants to capture the view, not just the data. ...
Fields Afar: Diversity in Surveying
Our work supports decision-making. The measurements we take, the research we conduct, the professional judgements we make—significant decisions are made based on these. As it is now possible to rapidly consider much more data in making decisions, customers ask for more data—they’re definitely not trending to less data. Someone does not want to have to...
New Guide for Carlson Survey Released
A Practical Guide to Carlson Survey Released CADapult Press has recently released their newest book featuring Carlson Software instruction. A Practical Guide to Carlson Survey 2015 focuses on effectively using this powerful software and is the companion to their other Carlson textbook, A Practical Guide to Carlson Software Fundamentals. This book is an essential resource for all...
A Correctly Weighted Least Squares Adjustment, Part 2
Estimating Uncertainties In the previous article (January 2016), I point out the unreliability of sample standard deviations as estimates for population standard errors when the number of repeated observations is very small, which is typically the problem in surveying. In this article I look at how we can estimate the standard errors for observations based...
United Surveyors of Arizona
United Surveyors of Arizona announces the launch of a new professional organization and opens membership opportunities [Editor’s note: xyHt is always happy to publish news of organizations or initiatives that help promote land surveying and other geospatial professions. Strong participation by individual practitioners in professional associations and societies at the local, state, national, and international levels...
Future of Surveying Forum
On January 22, 2016, the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) kicked off a national initiative to examine the future of the surveying profession in a face-to-face forum with representatives from 18 key surveying associations, educational institutions, and practitioner constituencies. As one of the media outlets invited (to help with outreach), xyHt will be providing...
