When crews set off for an ambitious survey project of the lower Colorado River in late fall 2021, they were carrying an additional…
Volume 19 Issue 5
September 2022
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FEATURES
09.24.2022
Rock Fall Analysis
A True Test Case
It had been two long days working in the remote Kings River canyon and finally the last flight was being prepared. The drone…
09.24.2022
Witness to History
When technology gets to work the results can be life-changing
The overwhelming majority of Topcon equipment at work today can be found on job sites around the world—projects ranging from massive development excavations…
09.24.2022
The Noblest of Trades
Combining in a single profession—in a single day’s work, sometimes—mathematics, law, field work, historical investigation and sundry other skills, land surveying is rightly…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
09.24.2022
Guest Editorial: My Friend Steve
I have a friend who will always go to bat for you. He will always go the extra yard, no matter how much…
Bad Backsights
09.24.2022
Bad Backsights: The Future of Surveying
Another Take
This is a hypothetical situation—I want to make that perfectly clear. Any resemblance to actual people, places or projects is purely coincidental. I…
Vantage Point
09.24.2022
Vantage Point: It May Be in Writing, But…
I have been working on an immense land acquisition for open space for nearly a year now. It has been drama from Day…
DEPARTMENTS
09.24.2022
Test Yourself 84: A Circles Circus
There are six areas in the drawing below: the quarter-circle, the semi-circle, the full circle, the deltoid triangle x-B-y, the circular triangle y-C-z,…
09.24.2022
FeedBack
Stay In Your Lane Thanks to Wendy Lathrop for her always insightful contributions through her Vantage Point column. This month’s issue (July/August 2022)…