Scripture envisages a time when “Every valley shall be lifted up/ every mountain and hill made low / and the uneven ground shall…
Category: Feature
12.04.2022
Double Vision
Merging the Data from Two Remote Sensing Platforms to Help Build a Dam
In the ever-evolving world of construction, the need for surveyors to stay ahead of the technology curve is critical. New techniques for building,…
12.04.2022
From Model Ts to Model Communities
Highland Bridge Project Team Finds Common Ground in a Digital Environment
For more than 80 years, the Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant, located along the banks of the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota’s…
11.10.2022
It’s a Long Way to the Top
Interview with Dennis Kemmesat of Frontier Precision
American Surveyor caught up with Frontier Precision Founder & CEO Dennis Kemmesat at Trimble Dimensions 2022 to discuss what’s working for today’s most…
09.24.2022
Real-Time Certainty
Flows in the Colorado River
When crews set off for an ambitious survey project of the lower Colorado River in late fall 2021, they were carrying an additional…
09.24.2022
Rock Fall Analysis
A True Test Case
It had been two long days working in the remote Kings River canyon and finally the last flight was being prepared. The drone…
09.24.2022
Witness to History
When technology gets to work the results can be life-changing
The overwhelming majority of Topcon equipment at work today can be found on job sites around the world—projects ranging from massive development excavations…
09.24.2022
The Noblest of Trades
Combining in a single profession—in a single day’s work, sometimes—mathematics, law, field work, historical investigation and sundry other skills, land surveying is rightly…
07.11.2022
The Stick Wigglers
The one person on the survey crew that is completely indispensable is the helicopter pilot. The job could not be accomplished without them….
07.11.2022
In Memoriam: Christopher Alexander
“Really one of the very largest problems that is facing the Earth just now, is rarely mentioned—and that is the spread of ugliness.”…
