Presentation on precision and intelligence to explore the next era of geospatial innovation Portland, Maine – USA, November 4, 2025 – Organizers of…
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Merging Lidar & Images: How Easy Is It?
Hosted by Michael O’Sullivan, VP Sales at SimActive with guest speaker Matthew Johnson, Product Manager at Teledyne Geospatial Date: Thursday, November 6th, 2025…
The Age of Disbelief
We are entering into a time when we will have trouble believing our lying eyes. So far, AI appears to be mostly used…
Bad Backsights: It’s Only Money
Did you happen to read the editorial by Juan Plaza that NSPS helpfully linked on the Surveyor Says website? It is entitled Are…
Vantage Point: Stepping Up to Fill the Gaps
This is not the article I had intended to write for this issue. But I can no longer restrain my frustration with what…
Law. Land. Lines. Things Change: Roads and the Shifting Use Doctrine
What rights do owners of real property have in regard to the streets abutting their land? On this theme we will look at…
Securing the Signals
How Trimble RTX-NMA Protects GNSS From Spoofing
Surveyors know better than most that accuracy is everything. A few centimeters can mean the difference between a boundary correctly staked and a…
AI at the Boundary
Using ChatGPT to Explore Survey-Related Law and Case Precedent
Introduction: Why I Asked the Robot About Law In a profession where everything we do could end up in court, surveyors spend surprisingly…
The Rest of the Story – Part 1
This saga begins in Trinity County, California where Steven A.D. Puter (pronounced “pewter”) was born in January 1857. Two years later, his father…
Mission: Possible
A Schoolkid, His Surveyor Dad, and a Full 3D Scan of a Lost Landmark
When fourth grader Luke Gutierrez was assigned Mission Soledad for his California mission project—which is a rite of passage for many schoolchildren in…
