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Volume 20 Issue 4
August 2023
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FEATURES
08.12.2023
From Blender Blades to Helicopter Blades
The Places Surveying Can Take You
It’s the same story heard time and time again among surveyors. The story of how you found surveying. Other than the ones whose…
08.12.2023
Monuments Going Up in Smoke
Let’s talk wildfire, or more specifically, let’s talk about the effects on boundary monuments by wildfire. Even more specifically, let’s talk about heavy…
08.12.2023
Colorizing Lidar Point Clouds
It’s not just black and white anymore
With the advent of easy, convenient, and available GPS coverage around 1999, lidar has become the standard for delivering timely and accurate 3D…
08.12.2023
Boeing Engineers Create Record-Setting Paper Airplane
Enters the Guinness Book of World Records
Let’s face it. There isn’t a lot about flying paper airplanes that is noteworthy, much less having an article in a magazine on…
08.12.2023
How Much Will the Survey Cost?
The questionnaire has been withdrawn. See the article for more…
COLUMNS
From the Editor
08.12.2023
We Get Letters
We receive a fair amount of correspondence, often from people who think we do surveying. I explain that we are a magazine not…
Bad Backsights
08.12.2023
Anatomy of a Conspiracy
As far back as 2017, the NSPS Government Affairs Consultant, John Palatiello put together a white paper and presentation on what he saw…
Vantage Point
08.12.2023
Better Late Than Never: The New Elevation Certificate
FEMA has finally issued a replacement to the Elevation Certificate that expired November 30, 2022, and we need to use only the new…
Everything Is Somewhere
08.12.2023
Custodians of Civilization
“As humans, we are historically biased against maintenance, and yet that is exactly what infrastructure needs,” according to UCLA archaeologist Monica L. Smith,…
DEPARTMENTS
08.12.2023
FeedBack: New Wave of Attacks on Surveying
I heard an interesting political analogy the other day, and it caused me to reflect on the many discussions and varying interests within…