“Following the footsteps” is not just a clever phrase; it describes the responsibility surveyors take on when they work for the public good and under the public trust.

As a professional surveyor for more than thirty-five years it has been my training, my understanding, and my experience that we have a sacred duty to the public interest. In the paragraphs that follow, I make the case that implementing the international foot as the United States law of the land is contrary to the public good.

The drone forensics field is still in nascent stages of development.

We can help the new generations of surveyors and geospatial professionals achieve great things if they will listen. But first, we have to listen to them.

On October 16, 2019, Utah Senator Mike Lee introduced a proposal to restrict the Federal Aviation Administration’s right to regulate airspace below 200 feet.

Companies using equipment like drones in their operations must vet for security as well as for capability.

There’s an old line about perfect being the enemy of good. It is also paraphrased as perfection being the enemy of progress.

GPS-geospatial data probes and analytics work well because everyone can understand pictorial maps and trends of populations, assets, weather, etc.