Italy’s Mount Etna is one of the world’s most famous—and most active—volcanoes. Located on the east coast of Sicily, the mountain’s location and…
Category: Feature
11.14.2019
Modern Adventures in History
Digitally Preserving the Ancient City of Volterra
Not many geospatial professionals enter the field thinking they will travel to Italy to document and digitize ancient sites. For many, it would…
11.14.2019
Unsung Hero: The Arkansas-Mississippi Line
Surveys across America by Samuel Stinson Gannett
Port Royal was once the county seat in Coahoma County, Mississippi. It was a bustling little town along the banks of the Mississippi…
10.05.2019
A Zoological Datum
How Honey Bees Use Datums for Mapping and Navigation
“The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.” —Karl von Frisch,…
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…
