“The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.” —Karl von Frisch,…
Category: Feature
10.05.2019
New Vertical Construction Technology
Scanning robotic total station combines two functions
In the 1950s, Ace Books began publishing Ace Doubles, which were two separate novels combined in a single volume. For example, a reader…
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…
08.03.2019
SPAR 3D Expo & Conference/AEC Next Technology Expo + Conference
Throughout the last half century I have been to my share of trade shows and conferences. When I was a kid, my favorite…
08.03.2019
Easing Data Frustrations
8 best practices for survey businesses to optimize software capabilities
Across the board, software technology is increasingly innovating the way business processes evolve, allowing for greater efficiency and accuracy than ever before. Surveying…
08.03.2019
A Job Named SUE
Why It’s Time to Change the Way We Talk About Underground Mapping
For the last few decades, Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) has elevated the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries in accuracy and quality by…
08.03.2019
Skytec Completes Frigid Upper Peninsula Hybrid UAS Success
Longer flights and lidar payloads yield consistent data acquisition for Tennessee team
During a frigid late-November trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,the Skytec team needed UAS and lidar equipment to perform well in harsh weather. The…
06.23.2019
Geomagnetic Declination (1685 – 1910)
Using Land Surveys, Lidar, and Stone Walls
My first experience with stone walls was as a young kid (6-10 years old) living in South Deerfield, NH. The family home was…
06.23.2019
USS Surveyor
Geodetic Ship of Alaska (1917–1955)
In 1915, the United States Coast & Geodetic Survey (C&GS) found itself in need of upgrading and improvement in many areas. The precision…
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.…
