Tag Archives: surveying

xyHt Magazine Digital Edition: December 2021

Like a good surveyor, xyHt‘s December issue covers a lot of ground. This month we bring you stories about surveying, lidar, legal issues and an in-depth look at the emerging post-processing kinematic technology. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy,...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 11/19/2021

NSPS 21st Annual Student Competition Bushfire Mitigation through Machine Learning with AusNet and AWS Register for 11th Utility Investigation School in Golden, Colorado Young Surveyors Network to Meet Dec. 4 Fugro to Update Cayman Islands Hydrography for UKHO with Carbon-Neutral Survey Scan to BIM In Minutes Webinar on Nov. 30 Global Navigation Satellite Systems Market Expected to Grow 8.2% During...

Safety First

If you look at a list of the most dangerous jobs in America, you won’t see surveyor listed in the top 25, but I believe that is because most of us only spend a small percentage of our time working along the highway or on a construction site. As many can attest, those situations are...

Exit Interview

Questions and answers with retiring NSPS Executive Director Curtis Sumner Curtis Sumner has had a venerable career in surveying, starting as an 18-year-old straight out of high school and finishing as the long-time executive director of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). Raised in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, Sumner gained...

Tunnelling to a New Approach

A surveyor switches from conventional technology to the Trimble SX12, enabling her to match the frenetic pace at six times the speed of multiple-person crews.

Policing Our Profession

Although my professional practice has been limited to California where we have a governing board of registration, I believe that model exists in every state. The mission and vision statements of the California Board of Registration for professional engineers, land surveyors, and geologists are quite succinct: Mission Statement: We protect the public’s safety and property...