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NV5 Launches GeoAgent, Ushering in the Era of Autonomous Geospatial Intelligence

Seiler Geospatial Expands Regional Presence with Acquisition of NEI Territory in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi

KPM Franklin Unveils New Geospatial & Land Surveying Department

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Kavel 10 Invests in Three UltraCam Osprey 4.2 Systems for Nationwide 3cm Mapping of the Netherlands

Accelerating Mapping with Distributed Processing

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USC Spatial Sciences Institute Announces 2026 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit

Virtual Surveyor Adds Local Coordinate System Functionality in Latest Release of Smart Drone Surveying Software

FARO and Creaform Combine to Form Two New Business Units

Scaling Photogrammetry in the Cloud With Distributed Processing: Is It the Future?

Trimble and Volatus Aerospace Elevate Precision and Safety in BVLOS Drone Deliveries

Golden Software Makes Major Upgrade to Grapher Scientific Graphing Package

Call for Speakers Now Open for GEO Business 2026

Dr. Lilian Pintea of the Jane Goodall Institute to Deliver Keynote at Geo Week 2026

Pixxel and UP42 Announce Partnership, Bringing Hyperspectral Data to Users Worldwide

Mapping Trends for 2026: Speed and Reliability Take the Lead

Hexagon Launches GeoMonitoring

GEO-MEASURE, Precision Made Simple

Photogrammetric Accuracy Requirements: How to Meet Them?

UP42 Announces Partnership with NV5, Adding LiDAR Data to Its Ecosystem

ABC Welcomes Trump Administration’s Proposal to Clarify ‘Waters of the United States’

Introducing The Carlson Viking: Groundbreaking Flagship GNSS Base/Rover Manufactured in Maysville, Kentucky

Trimble Announces 2025 Construction Innovation Award Winners

SFL Missions Awarded Contract for Additional GHGSat Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Microsatellites

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LiDAR & Lawmen

It’s hard to talk of Tombstone, Arizona and not immediately picture the great shootout at the O.K. Corral. A town filled with dusty...

Doubling Down On Digital

The surveying profession enters 2026 amid accelerating digital transformation, driven by pressure to deliver faster, more accurate results while navigating workforce shortages, evolving...

Communities Facing Disasters

Imagine, if you will, the effort it takes to rebuild an entire community, literally from the ground up, after a catastrophic event, such...

Cautionary Tales of AI Use in Legal Research

Many surveyors love new tools and technologies, and artificial intelligence (AI) is one new technology that is being embraced by the profession. AI...

The Rest of the Story Part 2

Loomis stated that Heidecke had introduced him to a number of residents of Detroit and that he obtained affidavits from L. Jacobs, the...

What Would You Say…

It’s finally happening. After decades of hand-wringing and despair, the survey replacements are showing up. A new cadre of registered Land Surveyors are...

#27 – Nate Dang and Kevin Grover

In this episode, Angus talks with Nate Dang of Accurate Surveying & Mapping and Kevin Grover, Head of Customer Success at Looq AI,…

#26 – David Seamon

In this wide-ranging conversation, Angus talks with geographer and phenomenologist David Seamon about the life, work, and legacy of architect and thinker Christopher…

Law. Land. Lines. Things Change: Roads and the Shifting Use Doctrine

What rights do owners of real property have in regard to the streets abutting their land? On this theme we will look at...

Securing the Signals

Surveyors know better than most that accuracy is everything. A few centimeters can mean the difference between a boundary correctly staked and a...

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Latest Issue

Volume 22 Issue 4 // December 2025

From the Editor

Everything Requires an Edge

The new issue is full of great content. Some publications use editorial themes, but in my 30+ years of magazine publishing I have…

Bad Backsights

Shinbok

In my first five years as a young surveyor, I had the privilege of working with a PLS who was maybe ten years…

Reconnaissance

The 2026 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys

After over three years of work by the Joint ALTA/NSPS Work Group, the 2026 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys…

Vantage Point

Playing Nicely — It’s Complicated

Surveyors know that an easement is a right to use someone else’s property for some specific purpose. The property that is being used…

Everything Is Somewhere

A Condition of Life at Every Scale

States have the right to regulate migration flows and to defend their own frontiers, always guaranteeing the respect due to the dignity of…