04.18.2021

Law. Land. Lines: Waterways & Earth Day Part 2

By the end of the nineteenth century, civil engineers had created the Suez Canal, London’s sewers, and the steel-truss Eads Bridge across the…
04.18.2021

History of RTK—Part 1: A Really Tough Problem to Solve

A history that needs telling: Visionaries saw potential in GPS-based solutions for land and marine surveying…
04.18.2021

Geodesia Today: RTK Radio Secrets Part 2

In Part One of this article, we looked at some basic radio terms and basic equipment setups. In this Part Two, we’ll dive…
04.18.2021

Selling America: The General Land Office and the Rector-Conway Family Surveying Dynasty Part 1

Never in the history of humanity was there an opportunity and a perceived mission for a country to spread its citizens across an…
02.08.2021

The Quest for the Highest Point

Determining the elevation of the world’s most famous mountain is not as simple as taking a GNSS receiver to the summit. The newest…
02.08.2021

Geodesia Today: RTK Radio Secrets Part 1

Real Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS surveying is great, but one of the biggest challenges in the field is having sufficient UHF radio range…
02.08.2021

Godspeed Gold Dredge No. 8 versus Fairbanks Gold

As a surveyor in Alaska there are tales of travails in the field which appear in many journals. The biggest was the boundary…
02.08.2021

From a Pit to a Park

Often derided as eyesores or environmental risks, areas such as capped landfills, depleted mines and spent gravel pits are finding new life as…
11.29.2020

Getting Off on the Wrong Foot

Below is a classic surveying horror story that revolves mostly around the confusion of the Survey Foot (SFT) and the International Foot (IFT)…
11.29.2020

Waterways & Earth Days Part 1

About a month into our pandemic lockdown was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an event its founders called a nationwide “teach-in on…
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