Category Archives: Surveying
Running Interference
Is Ligado Networks’ proposed terrestrial nationwide network a threat to GPS or a boon to 5G? The Global Positioning System has always faced challenges inherent in its design (weak signal, orbital and clock errors, receiver noise, dilution of precision), as well as from natural phenomena (ionospheric and tropospheric delays, solar flares), local topography and the built environment...
Landslide Bill Clears Congress; Labor Rescinds AAM 212
The passage of the National Landslide Preparedness Act by the U.S. Senate last week drew enthusiastic support from the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). The landslide bill passed by unanimous consent following earlier approval by the House of Representatives and clears the bill for signature into law by President Trump. Also last week the...
30 Years In: Female PLS Still Gets Questioned
When I started surveying, during college breaks in western New York, I was fortunate enough to work for a company owned by a woman. The party chief I worked for was a woman. As I moved up and became a chief myself, I was able to work with several other women as my rodperson. Women in the...
The Early Days of 3D Scanning: Part 7
1998: The Public Unveiling of 3D Scanning In my prior “insider” articles for this series (monthly, starting with the June 2020 issue), I described how in 1996 I became aware of 3D laser scanning while the technology was in development. In March 1998, I left a senior product marketing position with Trimble to join the...
Doers: Matt LaLuzerne
LaLuzerne is Strategic Growth Director, GPI Geospatial and incoming president of the Florida Region of ASPRS xyHt: How did you get started in the geospatial industry? LaLuzerne: During my undergraduate studies at the University of Florida, I focused heavily on pre-engineering courses to prepare myself for civil engineering. I would always see a small advertisement in the...
Dis-Located: America’s Two Feet
Buried in the October 5 edition of the Federal Register — the daily publication that meticulously and officially records the minutiae of the federal government — was the notice “Depreciation of the United States Survey Foot.” Since 1893 the U.S Survey Foot has been one of the standards by which surveyors plot the country. But we’ve...
