Determining the elevation of the world’s most famous mountain is not as simple as taking a GNSS receiver to the summit. The newest…
Volume 18 Issue 1
January 2021
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FEATURES
02.08.2021
Geodesia Today: RTK Radio Secrets Part 1
The 101-Level Basics of Radio
Real Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS surveying is great, but one of the biggest challenges in the field is having sufficient UHF radio range…
02.08.2021
Godspeed Gold Dredge No. 8 versus Fairbanks Gold
As a surveyor in Alaska there are tales of travails in the field which appear in many journals. The biggest was the boundary…
02.08.2021
From a Pit to a Park
To create a sprawling 160-acre recreational site, Utah contractor’s impressive range of services draws heavily upon GNSS solutions.
Often derided as eyesores or environmental risks, areas such as capped landfills, depleted mines and spent gravel pits are finding new life as…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
02.08.2021
From the Editor: Rules for Tools?
What and why are you measuring? Your answers define the offer of professional services. If you don’t own the “what” and the “why”…
The Business of Surveying
02.08.2021
The Business of Surveying: Creating Your Firm’s Business Plan
Last month, I wrote about business planning in general. This column is specifically about a business plan. Whether you are the principal, owner,…
Vantage Point
02.08.2021
Vantage Point: Getting “To” the Point
Author’s note: The following is a lightly—but only lightly!—fictionalized version of true events. It was a real argument, and my closing salvo was…
Reconnaissance
12.31.2020
2021 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys Adopted
After two years of concentrated effort and the input of many interested persons including several hundred surveyors, the American Land Title Association and…
DEPARTMENTS
02.08.2021
Decided Guidance: Back to Ohio
In the January 2020 installment of Decided Guidance we visited the First Seven Ranges of The USPLSS in Guernsey County, Ohio. We’re going…
02.08.2021
GLO Record Plat: Muir Woods National Monument
A Proclamation Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested…
02.08.2021
Test Yourself 74: Find the Angles and Distances
Find angles A and C and lengths AD and EC. For the solution to this problem (and much more), please visit our website…