Mary Jo Wagner

Planners, authorities and biodiversity specialists in Brittany have been pressured to balance this urban sprawl with environmental protection policies, but existing vegetation maps of the region have made that difficult.

For the past two years, Svein Ivar Vestbø, a survey engineer with Norway’s Geomatikk Survey, has been scanning and producing 3D point clouds of relatively small structures. That all changed in December 2018 with a restoration project that would scale their scanning and surveying expertise to never-before heights and depths.

If the Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) offered frequent-contractor points, the professional land surveyors at CES Group Engineers would likely be triple-platinum members.

When a Cessna fixed-wing aircraft took off over an Austrian alpine region on an early morning day in August 2016, it ascended carrying two crew, a large-format digital camera, a bit of uncertainty, and a whole lot of risk.

Aerial photography has played a major role in advancing operational precision agriculture applications. As image precision has gotten better, so too has the need for advanced research and powerful geospatial tools to learn best how to harvest such data-rich information into efficient, effective and reliable tools of the precision agriculture trade.

Bristol-based AG Surveys became the first company in England to officially use a UAS to survey beaches and prove the viability of the technology for coastal monitoring.

Major telecom players are already starting to invest in the next generation of mobile networks – and surveyors and geospatial professionals are helping to get it started.

Exhilarating isn’t a word you typically associate with vegetation mapping surveys, but Dr. Whitney Broussard, a senior scientist at JESCO, chose that word – twice – in describing a drone-based survey along the state’s coastal marsh.

For surveyors, the “unexpected” in the field is not usually welcome. Surprises lead to challenges to resolve, time delays and, often, increased costs.