It is with great sadness to report that Dr. Javad Ashjaee has succumbed to the virus sweeping the globe. The surveying community owes…
Category: Feature
05.23.2020
Uncovering Our Ancient Past
Archaeologist employs total stations to create photorealistic 3D GIS models
Part of being human is to grapple with big questions such as who am I and where did I come from? In the…
05.23.2020
Henderson Townsite Retracement Survey
The genesis for the retracement survey for the Henderson Townsite was a previous project in the area of the 1931 Plat of Sierra…
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…
05.23.2020
Preserving Survey Records
Hancock Associates, a Danvers, Massachusetts-based land surveying, civil engineering and wetland science firm was founded in 1978. Over the years, it has amassed…
04.22.2020
Precise Accuracy for Underground Pipelines
Centimeter-level accuracy in remote locations is key to installing underground oil pipelines and staking drill sites
Texas is oil country. But before the rigs start pumping and the black gold flowing, pipes need to be laid and drilling locations…
04.22.2020
Study the Scope
Survey projects are routinely plagued by scope violations. One cause of this problem is that technicians assigned to the project are not familiar…
04.22.2020
Tracking All GNSS Constellations
Why it matters to surveyors
We interviewed three Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) real-time network (RTN) operation experts about the advantages of talking to all available constellations. While…
03.03.2020
Behind the Lines
The Untold Story of the Secret Mission to Seize Nazi Map Data
The nature of.. combat in World War II gave geodesy new urgency. Hough’s orders were to follow the front, and ride the first…
03.03.2020
Ever Come Across a U.S.S.C. Stamped Cap?
It is part of a Surveyor’s field work to locate government monuments. An infrequently found monument is stamped “U. S. Supreme Court”. These…
