The newest generation of tripod and mobile LiDAR scanning systems offer the ability to measure surface topography in unprecedented detail. Although LiDAR has…
Category: Feature
05.09.2018
Dataflow
The Role of Data in Keeping Pipeline Infrastructure Safe and Sustainable
Moving product–oil, gas, petroleum–over land via a pipeline is the most economical method of transportation today–but the environmental impact when accidents occur can…
04.11.2018
Surveyors Turn to Technology to Thwart Thieves
Cost of Asset Theft Goes Beyond Equipment Replacement
Jarrod Black R.L.S. is a long-time surveyor with Rochester & Associates, Inc., a 50-year-old land development solution provider with offices in Georgia. Rochester…
04.11.2018
Unsung Hero: The Idaho-Montana Line
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…
04.11.2018
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….
04.11.2018
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…
04.05.2018
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…
03.13.2018
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…
03.13.2018
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…
03.13.2018
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…
