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Volume 16 Issue 7
August 2019
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FEATURES
08.03.2019
Easing Data Frustrations
8 best practices for survey businesses to optimize software capabilities
Across the board, software technology is increasingly innovating the way business processes evolve, allowing for greater efficiency and accuracy than ever before. Surveying…
08.03.2019
A Job Named SUE
Why It’s Time to Change the Way We Talk About Underground Mapping
For the last few decades, Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) has elevated the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries in accuracy and quality by…
08.03.2019
Skytec Completes Frigid Upper Peninsula Hybrid UAS Success
Longer flights and lidar payloads yield consistent data acquisition for Tennessee team
During a frigid late-November trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,the Skytec team needed UAS and lidar equipment to perform well in harsh weather. The…
COLUMNS
Thought Leader
08.03.2019
Crowdsourcing and Volunteered Geographic Information
Crowdsourcing and VGI (volunteered geographic information) have been described by one commentator as “more than a threat to the surveying community” and a…
Vantage Point
08.03.2019
Dirty Stories
If our homes are our castles, we should be able to do pretty much anything we want there, right? Well, not exactly. There…
DEPARTMENTS
08.03.2019
Decided Guidance: Hankins Versus Kandlik
I want to thank Jim Hankins for steering the ship with his feedback. He offers his thoughts from the dominant perspective in this…
08.03.2019
Test Yourself 65: Another Fine Miss, Ollie
What is the centerline radius for the longest radius that will be tangent to the 66’ offset sidelines and pass through the corner…