By the end of the nineteenth century, civil engineers had created the Suez Canal, London’s sewers, and the steel-truss Eads Bridge across the…
Category: Feature
04.18.2021
History of RTK—Part 1: A Really Tough Problem to Solve
Visionaries saw potential in GPS-based solutions for land and marine surveying
A history that needs telling: Visionaries saw potential in GPS-based solutions for land and marine surveying…
04.18.2021
Geodesia Today: RTK Radio Secrets Part 2
The 201 level of Advanced Radio Function
In Part One of this article, we looked at some basic radio terms and basic equipment setups. In this Part Two, we’ll dive…
04.18.2021
Selling America: The General Land Office and the Rector-Conway Family Surveying Dynasty Part 1
Never in the history of humanity was there an opportunity and a perceived mission for a country to spread its citizens across an…
02.08.2021
The Quest for the Highest Point
Determining the elevation of the world’s most famous mountain is not as simple as taking a GNSS receiver to the summit. The newest…
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…
11.29.2020
Getting Off on the Wrong Foot
The long overdue sunset of an outdated conversion
Below is a classic surveying horror story that revolves mostly around the confusion of the Survey Foot (SFT) and the International Foot (IFT)…
11.29.2020
Waterways & Earth Days Part 1
About a month into our pandemic lockdown was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an event its founders called a nationwide “teach-in on…
