Table of Contents – The American Surveyor – Vol.8, No.1 2011

Editorial:
Good Records
By Marc Cheves, LS
 
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Rainier—The Unforgiving Mountain
A large group of surveyors mounts a GPS campaign to verify the height of Washington’s Mt. Rainier.
By Gavin Schrock, LS
2,661kb
Using the Lynx Mobile Mapper to Survey a Levee
A technical validation of the use of mobile scanning to verify the height of a New Orleans levee.
By James Wilder Young
1,565kb
GIS Matters:
Convert CAD to GIS
By RjZimmer, LS
680kb
Software Review: MicroSurvey CAD 2010 Ultimate
Our expert software reviewer examines a popular point cloud software package.
By Shawn Billings, LS
455kb
Conference Review: Leica HDS User Conference 2010
The editor of LiDAR News Online reports on this popular annual conference.
By Gene W. Roe, PhD, PE, LS
2,610kb
Model Behavior: The How-To Guide to Successful Surface Modeling, Part 5
Save time, money, and errors in the field by having a digital surface model delivered to the equipment on-site.
By Kenneth A. Crawford, PE
451kb
Vantage Point:
The Latest “Gate”
By Wendy Lathrop, LS, CFM
107kb