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Share Your Story and Inspire Other Surveyors!

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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 Share Your Story!   You can either post it by adding a new story post or email it to [email protected] and we will post it on your behalf.  No matter if you are a student of surveying looking for a mentor or a surveyor who has been in the field for years needi

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Land Surveyor

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 mathematical formula in short) and to retrieve the results I was looking for.

By taking the formula to deter

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Land Surveyor

SOFTWARE FREE BUBBLE GNSS ROVER RTK

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 part of a GNSS receiver into a smartphone and the second one is that we don't need to take the GNSS survey pole vertical !

My approach of this problem has been developed and tested alread

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Land Surveyor

THE DEAD END OF THE TRAVERSE METHOD

One of the typical survey method for determining station's points and survey details has been the traverse method. There have been considerable discussions on the way to "adjust" angles and distances and lot of rules of thumb while rigorous Least Squares Adjustment softwares are available anywhere.

I would say "too much" talks and controversial exchanges for a method that is simply not appropriated anymore considering modern instruments. Long traverses (geodetic) have been anyway replaced by usin

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Survey Legend

Amazing Survey Markers Around the World

With Survey Earth in a Day just around the corner again, knowing where your local markers are will come in handy when deciding where to submit a point from. Aside from our growing collection of Survey Marker Photos (photos tagged 'marker' inside the community), occasionally we will share marker photos on our Facebook Page which surveyors around the world respond to with, of course, their own marker photos.  Take a look at this post for example and the comments which followed.

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Land Surveyor

Plotting while measuring saves time and make the drawing accurate with no ambiguities. Creating accurate drawings is painless with a Bluetooth enabled DISTO device. If you paired the Distometer with AutoCAD mobile app, the Plotting can be done simultaneously.

First turn on Bluetooth in both devices and pair them. See the image below.

http://www.gpslandsurveying.com/modern-data-collection-plot-distometer-measurements-measuring-autocad/CAD

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NeoRTK GNSS Receiver for Surveyors

You may already be familiar with NeoRTK. However, if you are new to this name, NeoRTK GNSS Receiver is an all-in-one solution for survey. Working together with smart controllers, iHand20 or T17M, NeoRTK is ideal for application such as static data collection, CORS support, construction survey, staking-out, utilities, transportations and municipal facilities, etc. Download the brochure to get more details, click here. Learn more of NeoRTK, click here.

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Land Surveyor

Typical Surveyor's Report

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Here is a typical Surveyor's Report attached to many of the jobs that I do. This particular Land Survey was extremely complex and difficult but I thought you might get a kick out of seeing how this is done. The names and other information have been altered to protect the innocent.

SURVEYOR S REPORT

DISCUSSION

The parent tract of the subject tract was originally described by Deed to Weldon L. Wells August 31, 1955 recorded in Volume 3014, Page 724 of the Deed Records of Harris County, Texas. The sub

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Survey Legend

A New Vendor Group Hub for Posting Deals, Special Promotions and Discounts has been added just for you!  Share Your Specials and We'll Share Your Post!

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1198869206?profile=originalThis new hub for vendors will allow you to run special promotions just for Land Surveyors United members.  Use this hub to post your specials and discounts by CREATING A NEW DISCUSSION inside this group.  The more information you include the higher your chance of having your post FEATURED and shared to other social media sites.

NOTE: We are beg

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Survey Legend

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Check out this NEW YEAR RENTAL SPECIAL

 

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Including a Data Collector and Wifi Hotspot 

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$100 a Day 
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We also offer a great option to purchase your rental equipment
if you happen to fall in love with the new member of your survey crew! 


Please contact us to discuss all of your wants and needs 
Additional rental items are also available 

BE SURE TO TELL THEM YOU ARE A LAND SURVEYORS UNITED MEMBER!
813-999-8998
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Survey Legend

I stumbled upon a few interesting books that you may find as interesting as I have. These books will be particularly interesting to geodetic surveyors  and those surveyors across the planet who annually participate in Survey Earth in a Day.  Flat- Earthers may find them to challenge their theories.

A history of the determination of the figure of the earth from arc measurements

Publication date 1906
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GEO Ambassador

Look At All We've Done Together in 2017

As a global community with absolutely no budget, we have created quite a few milestones this year and that is all because of you and your undying commitment to your industry!  But don't take my word for it...check out our annual report!

A short video about our 2017 year together

2017 SURVEYOR COMMUNITY ANNUAL REPORT

This year we grew by over 3500 members, now well over 13,000 surveyors worldwide

Our Facebook page grew by over 6000 followers- now with over 47,000 followers!

Every single month

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Survey Legend

2017 Surveyor Community Annual Report

2017 has been an amazing year in the world of land surveying. Jaybird just finished compiling a report for the 2017 Annual Report for our Facebook Page and coming soon for the Surveying Jobs Page, Survey Earth in a Day and of course the entire community.  I just wanted to share this report and thank you all for your continued participation across platforms.  Together, we are truly making a difference in the surveying industry, despite the fact that the magazines and large media outlets are afrai

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SECTION 179 TAX BENEFIT - Don't Miss Out

ONLY 28 DAYS REMAINING 

For those of you who do not know what Section 179 is, let me give you my simple definition:  Section 179 allows companies to deduct full purchase price of qualifying equipment or software that was financed or purchased during the tax year.  What this means in layman’s terms (which is the only way I know how to communicate effectively) is that if you bought, financed, or leased qualifying equipment in 2017, you are able to deduct the full purchase price from your gross inco

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Survey Legend

Should Surveyors Be Alarmed?

While doing a little research into search trends for Land Surveying and Land Surveyors using Google trends, it is quite interesting to see that overall, searches for land surveyors worldwide have gone down significantly since 2008.    Would you venture to state your opinion as to why this might be the case?

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Should Land Surveyors as a whole be alarmed by this downward spiral in search? 

 Do you have any ideas as to how we might inject a better image of surveyors to the world?

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Hello everyone,

Be aware that a survey truck and a lot of equipment was recently stolen in Folsom. Here is the message from R.E.Y. Engineering along with photos of the suspect:

"Survey community, 

I hope you don't mind I am taking the time to send you this email but I think that it's important to come together in situations like this. Our company was robbed of two laser scanners, four total stations, four R10's, a level and a survey truck. All this totals to about $350,000 of survey equipment. Pl

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Vendor

NeoRTK is a high-precision GNSS receiver. With multi-constellation and multi-frequency GNSS board inside, it provides accurate and stable signal reception. The internal antenna can speed up TTFF and improve the capability of anti-jamming. All features inside provide peak performance under most demanding conditions for surveying field work. NeoRTK GNSS receiver can deliver with external radio module, handheld controller and software. The tailored base and rover packages offer flexibility for surv

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