Category Archives: Surveying

CADS Survey used two total stations facing each other to ensure that both ends of the 1.3-mile-long jetty met in the middle; this total station provided 1-cm accuracy when measuring from caisson to caisson.

Stretching Surveyors across the Water

Surveying the Gorgon Jetty Project on Barrow Island off Western Australia involved integrating structural, mechanical, and hydrographic surveying technologies and skills.  Barrow Island is described by some as Australia’s answer to the Galapagos Islands. The 202 km2 (78 mi2) island and its surrounding ocean are home to diverse and unique fauna, including marsupials, reptiles, sea...

Sarah Winter

Director of SurvCE Programming Division at Carlson Software Carlson has bragging rights in not only developing new approaches but also responding to and adopting new features from a very loyal user base; Sarah Winter is a key member of the software development team at Carlson. She’s from Sissonville, West Virginia, is a mother of three, and...

Brian J. Naberezny

Instructor of Surveying, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University Brian Naberezny’s experience includes traditional boundary and land development surveying; software development for several DoTs; serving as a geospatial analyst and operations manager for a Department of Energy-funded research project: working as a consultant developing and implementing technological solutions for surveying and...

Chris McAlister

Principal Project Officer, eSurvey Unit at the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines Chris McAlister is passionate about her job and industry. She is currently the project lead for the Queensland ePlan project, where surveyors are able to exchange survey data and information with the government for the creation of plans and titles. She...

Eva-Maria Unger

Surveying Engineer at the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying During her tenure as chair of the Young Surveyors Network (YSN) of the International Federation of Surveyors, Eva-Maria Unger  became, in the eyes of many in surveying, the international ambassador to the future of the profession. In addition to her involvement and promotion of...

Antonio Abellan

Associate Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Risk Analysis Group, Faculty of Geosciences and Environmenta at the University of Lausanne Switzerland is home to several of the world’s premier geospatial research and development institutions; some call it the Silicon Valley of the geospatial world. Many of the top minds in the related disciplines have been...