So far we have learned about the State Lines between Texas-Oklahoma in 1929 and the State Line between Washington-Idaho in 1909. Now we…
Category: Feature
Confusion on the Half Breed Tract
As European-American settlement pushed west in the early 19th Century, various areas were set aside across the country for the Native American tribes….
Taking Action on Compaction
Knife River Corp. commits to intelligent compaction solution on Oregon interstate repaving
If the Jeopardy answer was: “The only continuous U.S. Interstate highway that touches the borders of both Canada and Mexico,” the answer would…
Classical Iraqi Geodetic Control
In our November 2005 issue, we published an article titled Development of the Iraqi Geospatial Reference System. In our Jan-Feb 2006 issue, we…
Capturing the Past
Historic Livermore winery building lives on in a 3D point cloud
Livermore, California has a famous light…or more precisely, a lightbulb. For more than a century now the 4-watt light bulb, called the Centennial…
Unsung Hero: The Washington-Idaho Line
In the October 2017 issue we studied the Texas Oklahoma State Line. We also learned how it was eventually surveyed by the…
From Rail to Road: Mobile Lidar Applications in Public Transportation
For the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS), mobile mapping has made a significant impact on day-to-day operations. Between their light rail and…
Bridging the Gap
Robotic total station proves key to progress as survey firm grows its business.
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” —Benjamin Franklin Ben Franklin might not have had modern day technology in mind when he wrote the…
Extreme Environment Surveying
Explorers surveying remote Patagonia with Rugged Handhelds
A Franco-Chilean team of cave divers used the Nautiz X8 rugged handheld for marine cave surveying, gathering data to classify the inaccessible northern…
The Original Green Engineers
Sometimes, it’s best just to leave things as you found them. That’s the lesson shared by Dr. Richard Miksad and his students at…