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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Unsung Hero: Tennessee- North Carolina Line
For about 100 miles the Appalachian Trail (AT) runs along the border between Tennessee and North Carolina. The last shelter in the Great…
What is the Function of the Land Boundary Surveyor?
Mathematician or Discoverer of Evidence?
In answering these questions, we first dispense with the subject of the proper subdivision method of a Township, a task essentially completed in…
Taming the Wilds of Remote Surveying
Australia’s largest state, Western Australia (WA), occupies an entire third of Australia, a land mass that totals the combined land area of the…