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THIS EVENT OCCURS AT YOUR LOCATION SO IF YOU PLAN TO SUBMIT A POINT, CLICK "GOING' here on the facebook event.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT FOR LAND SURVEYORS ONLY
YOU DON"T HAVE TO "GO" ANYWHERE, SIMPLY SUBMIT A POINT FROM YOUR CURRENT LOCATION
Reasons to Participate in …
I was rummaging through some of my files today and came across the Faircloth Notes. The document is called “Land Surveying in Alabama” by James M Faircloth. Faircloth was a professor in the Civil Engineering department at the University of Alabama. (Dr. Turner, it’s still hard for me to type or say that.)
During his 36 years at the University he taught Surveying, collected…
Let me make this simple for you. For all of the land surveyors seeking employment inside the community, I am going to show you how to embed your resume inside your profile in 2 quick steps (add a 3rd step if you have a Linkedin Profile- but will work with any resume). This will…
Some things relevant to land surveying change very quickly, such as technology, shortages in the workforce, etc.. We can look to blogs authored by land surveyors to help guide us through those changes.
Here are the current Top 100 Land Surveying blogs based on Search Engine Ranking and Social Shares..…
We are going into the New Year Strong with over 50,000 Land Surveyors following the @landsurveyorsunited page... our potential is limitless!!…
It has been another great year spent with all of you.. 2019 is sure to be our most exciting year yet as we will be finally migrating to our new and improved platform, we will be hosting Survey Earth in a Day twice per year (on both solstices) and we will be hosting a new podcast /interview platform for all of you to be involved with. we hope that you will invite your crew members and…
Dear Surveyor,
As we steadily grow towards 15,000 members worldwide, as a community it is important for us all to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the community members. With that said, we'd like to invite you to…
Good news for all of you who are using a GNSS RTK without the fancy tilt meter and IMU onboard !
You can turn your today GNSS receiver to do the "free bubble style" by mixing up 2 technologies that popped up last year.
The first one is about software receiver as we learnt we can feed the digital signal processing…
When I started my career, I have been attracted by one (of many) question : how accurate is the surface/volume calculations knowing the uncertainties of the points that define these geometrical figures. I really wanted to know in term of standard deviation what would be the "end results".
The solution was to propagate the variances (standard deviation squared) into the functional model (the…
Take Advantage of SECTION 179 TAX BENEFITS
Advanced Geodetic Surveys has put together a handy equipment cost calculator for you in order to help educate land surveyors on the tremendous savings that are available by purchasing equipment before December 31st. …
A webinar recording of SmarterCAD capabilities
What to have in the work truck- we need your feedback!
This is a globally crowdsourced compendium of gadgets for the land surveyor to be published after first of the year.
Let's work together to compile a comprehensive list of stuff surveyors carry around…
Tune into Today to America's Web Radio for a special NSPS Radio Hour with Executive Director of NSPS - The National Society of Professional Surveyors, Curt Sumner with guest Justin Farrow, Creator of Land Surveyors United community.…
Hi Everyone,
I completed a Stockpile Volume Survey about a month or so ago and I thought I'd also make a 3d model that would be viewable, both online, but also in VR.
It can be viewed in VR most smartphones if you use cheap eg. $20 goggles, or with an Occulus Go headset.
Check it out and let me know your thoughts or any questions.…
Dear David c. Garcelon,
What you have written about Mr. Henry david thoreau,s biography, is absolutely correct.Good surveyor is unsung hero.We are the surveyor not getting respect that much even though we are the back bone of project.I think your written highly appreciate by all of us member.
Thank you for valuable writing.
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Many if not most land surveyors are…
Selective Availability: the intentional degradation of the timing and position information transmitted by a GPS satellite
PDOP: (the position dilution of precision); describes the amount of error due to the geographic position of the GPS satellites.…
