When crews set off for an ambitious survey project of the lower Colorado River in late fall 2021, they were carrying an additional…
Author: Mary Jo Wagner
05.16.2022
Shedding Light on a Dark Project
Surveying and scanning ease challenge of building New Zealand’s first underground railway
What often gets lost in the gloss of large construction projects are the small, precise elements that lead to the high-profile finish—the nitty…
03.13.2022
Ship Scanning Sets Sail
Engineering surveyor Danie Roelvert is a strong believer in one particular guiding principle: what is yours will come to you when it’s ready….
12.12.2021
From the Crown Down
Trimble technology helps researchers get to the root of classifying individual trees
Forest management in the Canadian province of Quebec is serious business. With forest landscapes that cover an area twice the size of Sweden,…
08.15.2021
Lighting the Way
When professional surveyor Sylvia De Vuyst arrived in the northern edges of Norway in March 2021 for a significant tunnelling project, she wasn’t…
05.23.2020
Repeated Imaging Success in Schiphol
In 2018, Schiphol Airport in The Netherlands recorded 499,444 commercial air flight movements, an average of about 1,350 take offs and landings per…
10.05.2019
Bringing the Field into the Office in Real Time
Sometimes a project comes along that changes everything. For the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD), in Fort Worth, Texas, that project was the…
06.23.2019
Simplifying Complexity with Scanning
With survey projects, there’s complex, there’s very complex, and then there’s the Cedar River Flood Control System (CRFCS) project in Cedar Rapids, Iowa….
05.25.2019
From All Sides
No one would dispute that courage is at the core of any police officer. It takes a certain braveness to dress for a…
10.07.2018
Meaningful Mapping
When it comes to determining what a particular object is, nothing beats a personal inspection. With a ground survey, one can see the…
