Tag Archives: surveyors
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...
Surveyor’s Corner: Women in Surveying
The future for women in surveying is getting brighter all the time History tells us the journey for female surveyors began with Alice Fletcher in the late 1800s. Fletcher was a social scientist who tried to integrate Native Americans into the European culture spreading across America. After learning that Native Americans feared being banished to...
Surveyors and Appellate Court Opinions
Why should we care about appellate court opinions? I have had this question posed to me on numerous occasions. I suppose it has its roots in the old surveyor’s saw: “We don’t need to read court decisions, because you can never know what the judge is going to do.” While this may have a grain...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 02/04/2022
National Surveyors Week March 20-26 Trimble Dimensions+ 2022 Call for Speakers Now Open Teledyne Introduces CZMIL SuperNova Lidar Bathymeter Bowler Pons Deploys Cepton’s Smart Lidar Solution to Augment Security for Critical Infrastructure ASPRS Announces February 2022 GeoByte! Riegl VZ-20001 Used for Permanent Forestry Monitoring Aeva Introduces Aeries II, World’s First 4D Lidar with Camera-Level Resolution...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 01/28/2022
Teledyne Geospatial’s Hardware and Software Solutions Highlighted at Geo Week 2022 Applications for Funds to Participate in the 7th FIG Young Surveyors Conference Infrastructure Czar Focuses on Grants to Local Government Marine-i Welcomes Government Funding for Floating Offshore Wind Innovation Bad Elf Adds Android Support for Laser Offset Workflow in Esri ArcGIS Field Maps Geo...
Social Distancing – It’s What We Do
As I contemplated the topic for this article, my thoughts could never completely detach from the world we now find ourselves. Despite my desire to write something unrelated, hopefully with some humor, I couldn’t seem to get there. I would venture to say that there is nobody who reads Field Notes who has not been...
