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2020 September

In the September 2020 issue of POB, see how Dewberry’s “complex” and “challenging” QL0 LiDAR for the Tallahassee-Leon County GIS Landbase Update Project achieves the highest levels of topographic accuracy the region has on record.

Leon County Bottomland Hardwood

HI-DEF

Florida-Based Land Surveyors Achieve QL0 LiDAR Scan for GIS Landbase Update

Survey data from the recently completed United States Geological Survey/Leon County 2018-2020 Tallahassee-Leon GIS Landbase Update Project characterizes the area's landscape like never before.

Alvan Karlin Raymond Miller Jr. Amar Nayegandhi Greg Mauldin

October 2, 2020

For the Tallahassee-Leon Geographic Information Systems Department, the elevation project was an opportunity to obtain high-accuracy survey data that would characterize its varied county landscape like never before.

members of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors

SURVEYING BY STATE

Land Surveyors in Missouri Celebrate History, Tradition

Susanne Daniel, PLS, president of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors, shares what it’s like to be a land surveyor in the Show Me State.

October 20, 2020

The establishment of the Fifth Principal Meridian's "Initial Point" is one of Missouri's most celebrated land surveying projects.

black and white drone photo

UAVs

New 'Flight to the Future' Drone Pilot Training and Business Ownership Program

Participants become a fully licensed drone pilot and business operator.

August 9, 2020

Participants become a fully licensed drone pilot and business operator.

TRAVERSING THE LAW

An Open Letter to the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying

"Surveying property boundaries is not an engineering project," says Lucas, "though too many so-called surveyors treat it as such."

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Jeffery N. Lucas, PLS, Esq.

July 18, 2020

"Surveying property boundaries is not an engineering project," says Lucas, "though too many so-called surveyors treat it as such."

Eric B. Gladhill at the truck

FIELD NOTES

Land Surveyor Recounts Being Stuck In the Field

Eric B. Gladhill

September 11, 2020

Eric B. Gladhill, PLS, on the problems every land survey crew faces in the field.

Performing cross sections in a pond

POINT & SHOOT

Kayak Surveying in Sussex County, Delaware

POB Editorial Staff

September 12, 2020

On this day, Eric Cooper, a professional land surveyor of 30 years, was performing cross sections in a pond formed from the outfall of a dam.

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