01.25.2020

Taming the Wilds of Remote Surveying

Australia’s largest state, Western Australia (WA), occupies an entire third of Australia, a land mass that totals the combined land area of the…
01.25.2020

Following the Footsteps of the Central Pacific Surveyors

The Survey—it was a charmed life for the time Anna Ferona Pierce Judah penned these words in a recollection of her husband, Theodore…
01.25.2020

High Wire Act

The numbers are pretty impressive: in the U.S. alone, it takes more than 200,000 miles of high voltage transmission lines (eight times the circumference of the…
12.18.2019

Return to Glory

Historic structures and architectural wonders like the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris rely on the inventions of their era to stay standing for…
12.18.2019

Early Black Hills Triangulation

When the United States Geological Survey (USGS) became tasked with mapping the nation into one contiguous system based upon accurate latitude and longitude…
12.18.2019

The Past and Future of Handheld 3D Scanning

In the past few years, SLAM-based handheld lidar scanners have made a big entrance into the 3D-capture market. These solutions are becoming popular…
11.14.2019

Deep Understanding

Italy’s Mount Etna is one of the world’s most famous—and most active—volcanoes. Located on the east coast of Sicily, the mountain’s location and…
11.14.2019

Modern Adventures in History

Not many geospatial professionals enter the field thinking they will travel to Italy to document and digitize ancient sites. For many, it would…
11.14.2019

Unsung Hero: The Arkansas-Mississippi Line

Port Royal was once the county seat in Coahoma County, Mississippi. It was a bustling little town along the banks of the Mississippi…
10.05.2019

A Zoological Datum

“The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.” —Karl von Frisch,…
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