Determining the elevation of the world’s most famous mountain is not as simple as taking a GNSS receiver to the summit. The newest…
Author: Amerisurv-Editor
02.08.2021
Geodesia Today: RTK Radio Secrets Part 1
The 101-Level Basics of Radio
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
To create a sprawling 160-acre recreational site, Utah contractor’s impressive range of services draws heavily upon GNSS solutions.
Often derided as eyesores or environmental risks, areas such as capped landfills, depleted mines and spent gravel pits are finding new life as…
02.08.2021
The Business of Surveying: Creating Your Firm’s Business Plan
Last month, I wrote about business planning in general. This column is specifically about a business plan. Whether you are the principal, owner,…
02.08.2021
Test Yourself 74: Find the Angles and Distances
Find angles A and C and lengths AD and EC. For the solution to this problem (and much more), please visit our website…
02.08.2021
Vantage Point: Getting “To” the Point
Author’s note: The following is a lightly—but only lightly!—fictionalized version of true events. It was a real argument, and my closing salvo was…
02.04.2021
Congress’s Reintroduction of the PRO Act Will Do Anything But ‘Build Back Better,’ Says ABC
Washington, Feb. 4—Associated Builders and Contractors President and CEO Michael Bellaman released the follow statement today in response to Congress’s reintroduction of the Protecting…
02.04.2021
Trimble Teams with ROBORACE for its Autonomous Racing Series
Trimble Named Official GNSS-Inertial Positioning Technology Supplier Sunnyvale, Calif., Feb. 4, 2021—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and ROBORACE, the world’s first autonomous racing series with…
02.03.2021
New Workability Options Enhance Carlson iCAD 2021
Maysville, Kentucky, USA (February 2, 2021)– Recent updates to Carlson’s just-released CAD program, iCAD 2021, include several time- and money-saving features and capabilities….
