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12.21.2024
Space Flight Laboratory Announces Successful Launch & Deployment of HawkEye 360’s Cluster 11
12.17.2024
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12.13.2024
World Lidar Day Returns for its Second Annual Celebration on February 12, 2025
12.13.2024
GEO Business 2025 Opens Call for Speakers
12.04.2024
USC Spatial Sciences Institute Presents Its Annual Los Angeles Geospatial Summit
12.03.2024
Software Integrated by Balko Tech in Modular Lidar Systems
12.03.2024
ABC: Withdrawal of Biden Administration’s Apprenticeship Rule a Victory for Stakeholders
11.27.2024
Picterra Launches New Geospatial Product to Transform Compliance, Verification and Sustainability Monitoring
11.22.2024
Webinar Topic – What Are the Advantages of Lidar With Drones?
11.21.2024
Geo Week Announces Keynote – Francis Scott Key Bridge: Rescue, Recovery, and Rebuild
11.21.2024
Advanced Navigation and NILEQ Collaborate on Breakthrough Resilient Navigation Technology
11.20.2024
Geo Week Announces Keynote – Dallas Fort Worth Airport’s Digital Evolution
11.20.2024
Now Available: NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NGS 92
11.20.2024
The World’s Most Accurate Car GPS Navigation Device
11.19.2024
u-blox Launches its First LTE Cat 1bis Module with Embedded eSIM
11.17.2024
ABC Applauds Court Decision Upending DOL’s Unlawful Overtime Rule
11.13.2024
Geo Week Announces 2025 Conference Program
11.12.2024
u-blox Launches Tri-Radio Module that Delivers the Latest Wireless Technologies for IoT Implementations
11.11.2024
Trimble Showcases New Artificial Intelligence Innovations During Dimensions User Conference
Features
Latest Issue
Volume 21 Issue 5 // December 2024
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From the Editor
Re: Has Technology Made the Professional Surveyor Obsolete?
Thank you for bringing these articles back and please keep up the good work. A good reminder to our profession about the value…
Bad Backsights
Is it Intelligent to Attack the Artificial?
Artificial sweeteners—sounded good in theory, but now they are thought to be bad for us. Faux meat—real yecch. The synthesizer versus the electric…
Everything Is Somewhere
Reflections of a Former Former Land Surveyor
2001 was a big year for me: I quit a fundamentalist Christian cult and adopted new beliefs about the eternal, moved from the…
Vantage Point
Why Lawyers Need Surveyors
It’s always reassuring when lawyers acknowledge the value of the surveyor on the team. Our education and experience can help lawyers with their…
Product Review
Product Review: Better Aerial Targets, Better (& Less Polluting) Aerial Surveys
James M. Dickey, PLS, has been in the profession for more than 25 years, and has been a Principal at Cinquini & Passarino,…