Tag Archives: surveying
Field Notes: How far should one go?
When surveyors are searching for a corner monument, a deed, or an unrecorded plat, they are always asking themselves, “How far should I go to find this?” These searches always raise a conundrum, because, as the theory goes, not finding something does not prove that it does not exist, but only by finding something can...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 08/12/2022
New Tools Added to TDI-Brooks’ Shallow Water Geotechnical Kit RIEGL Contributed to Groundbreaking Multi-Enterprise LiDAR Benchmarking Study Registration for CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE 2023 is Open New Addition to GNSS Smart Antenna Line URISA Announces Exemplary Systems in Government Award Winners URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet Announces the Results of the 2022 Student and Young Professional Digital Competition Geo...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 08/19/2022
Lidar Technology Confirms Existence of Lost Amazon City Trimble Introduces RTX Integrity for Positioning Data Accuracy Duke Robotics Introduces Revolutionary Drone Technology Sanborn Invests to Support Customer Demand Esri Book Reflects on COVID-19 Lessons and How GIS Technology Helped USGIF Announces 2022 Scholarship Award Winners CONEXPO-CON/AGG & IFPE Announce Inaugural Next Level Awards Program Phase One...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 08/05/2022
OGC Elects Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse to Board of Directors New Esri Book Showcases the Latest Online GIS Capabilities Ursa Space Systems and EOS Data Analytics Provide Geospatial Insights Across Ukraine NSPS Podcast: A Conversation with the Forest Service 2022 Surveying Education Award Winners Registration Now Open for CONEXPO-CON/AGG Bluesky Reveals Growing Appetite for Geospatial Data...
How Did I Ever Get Into this Profession?
Finding My Boundaries My first job in surveying came by accident, or perhaps part of a grand plan from God that I didn’t expect. I was only 17 years old and I had dropped out of art school after just one semester of failing grades. I had tried art school simply because it seemed easier...
The Challenge of Channeling Water
From the Romans to the Everglades, the art of directing water flow has never been easy For thousands of years impromptu land surveyors tried, sometimes successfully, to force water to flow in a direction it did not want to go. This was done to help grow crops in areas where water was not abundant enough...
