Category Archives: Surveying
Taking Surveying Underground
By Ben Shinabery Louisville’s massive Mega Caverns presented challenges for a huge subterranean survey Every day more than 150,000 people drive past the interstate billboards advertising the Louisville Mega Caverns not realizing they just drove over what is classified as the largest commercial building in Kentucky, even though it is entirely underground. What once was...
Looking Forward: Underground Surveying
This month's issue features a story about underground surveying. Beneath parts of the Louisville, Kentucky is the Louisville Mega Cavern, an underground space of 100 acres created by years of mining rock.
Let’s Get Real About Property
One of the more serious problems with the surveying profession is our schizophrenic relationship with property and the associated property rights. For my entire professional surveying career, too many surveyors seem to think we have nothing to do with property rights; that our job is to simply layout the math and measurements contained in the...
The Mission of MAPPS
View from Above MAPPS president Kelly Francis talks about the exciting future of the trade association This article is the first in a series of four focusing on a trade association that recently celebrated its 40th anniversary and continues making meaningful impacts in the geospatial community. The first article is an interview with Kelly Francis,...
Personnel Moves
Questions and Answers How the NSPS is working to tap new sources to expand the surveying labor pool In an interview with xyHt’s Linda Duffy, NSPS president-elect Davey Edwards, shares information about ongoing NSPS initiatives intended to alleviate shortages of qualified workers in the survey profession. Edwards is survey director for Baseline|DCCM, What would...
Preparing for the Effects of Solar Cycle 25 on GNSS Applications
As we head into the peak period for the current solar cycle, high-precision users can use space weather status and prediction resources to help plan field operations. Plus, receiver manufacturers have developed advanced mitigation solutions. Solar Cycle 25, so named as the 25th of the 11-year (approximate) cycles since 1755, when extensive recording of the...
