In a previous issue of American Surveyor (March-April, 2024) I stated the premise of the problem I wanted to solve…
Category: Feature
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Deprecate Grid Distance Dimensions
and use horizontal ground distance dimensions only…
The anomaly of having two nearly identical units of linear measurement has led the USA to discontinue the use of the “US Survey…