Ideological boundaries are nebulous compared with those land divisions precisely marked out by surveyors. Both types of divides were on display in a…
Category: Feature
06.10.2024
Shooting Polaris Part 2
In a previous issue of American Surveyor (March-April, 2024) I stated the premise of the problem I wanted to solve…
06.10.2024
Best Practices in Evaluating Geospatial Mapping Accuracy According to the New ASPRS Accuracy Standards
Accuracy assessments must take errors in ground control network into account
…surveyors using real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning are far too optimistic about their true accuracy…
03.24.2024
The Lost Railroad
When the mayor of New York City, in 1810, took a pencil and drew a proposed canal route on a piece of paper…
03.24.2024
Shooting Polaris
Surveyors’ equipment before the advent of GPS, went through the gamut of optical devices ranging from compass configurations to EDM and total stations…
03.24.2024
No Sun, No Fun
There are many kinds of adventures for Surveyors. Their profession is not sedate. However, for the last 22 years we have been following…
03.24.2024
Arctic Field Work to Scan Muskox Valley
Millions of mosquitoes, quick fixes with buckets and cloths and emergency chocolate—it was a journey to remember In the historical era of expeditions,…
03.24.2024
Education for the Professional Surveyor
Addressing Deficiencies and Coursework needs for the NCEES Exam
It was with great interest to read Knud E. Hermanson’s last Article 11 in the Missouri Surveyor, a quarterly publication of the Missouri…
01.29.2024
Land Surveying & Crop Circles
I am interested in crop circles and believe them to be a perplexingly powerful phenomenon that demands serious investigation not because I am…
01.29.2024
Augmented Reality and Boundaries
Augmented Reality (AR) is here. TV sports fans experience it as an imaginary line superimposed onto a football field indicating where the ball…
