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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11.29.2020
Growing the Numbers
How geospatial technology boosts efforts to restore degraded land and create new forests
Imagine planting enough new trees to cover a plot of land the size of Switzerland. Now do it again and again, nearly 500…
11.29.2020
Culver City: Previous Blast as a Catalyst for Change
How One Explosion Opened the Door for Surveyors in Underground Damage Prevention
On June 16, 1976, the community of Venice Boulevard in Culver City, California, was humming with construction for a street-widening project. But then,…
11.29.2020
Random Points: Has Lidar Viz Come of Age?
The nice thing about hardware is you can pick it up, feel its heft, move it around in your hands, scare the booth…
11.29.2020
Test Yourself 73: Find The Areas
Find the areas of the parcels on each side of the roadway, excluding the roadway. For the solution to this problem (and much…
11.29.2020
The Business of Surveying: Is Your Survey Practice Planning for Success?
While surveyors are licensed by each state to protect public health, safety, and welfare, in order to be in business a private practice…
11.29.2020
Vantage Point: No Way Out
The urge was strong to call this “No Exit,” but remembrances of Jean Paul Sartre’s play of the same name about a hellish…
11.29.2020
Reconnaissance: The Art of Retracement and the Surveyor’s Role
Traditionally, and almost universally, professional surveyors have been taught to survey the written title and to direct their client to seek the advice…
11.25.2020
CGSIC Bulletin: U.S. Department of Transportation Virtual Workshop on GPS Jamming and Spoofing in the Maritime Environment
Workshop: GPS Jamming & Spoofing in the Maritime Environment When: Thursday, Dec 3, 2020, 1:00PM-5:00PM (EST) via WebEx Description: U.S. Department of Transportation…
11.24.2020
Woolpert, J.D. Goodrum Collaborate on $13.5M Design-Build for Lake Wylie Recreation Park
The 32-acre athletic complex, known as Field Day Park at Lake Wylie, held its grand opening recently in Clover, S.C. Clover, S.C. (Nov….
