Depending on the use case, drones are an excellent choice for collecting high-quality remotely sensed data; however, current operating regulations in the U.S. require the operator to keep the drone in sight.

When Bruce Storrs first accepted his job as San Francisco City and County Surveyor 14 years ago, he was well aware of the challenges.

Prescriptive easements can be as problematic in their extinguishment as in their creation.

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.

Topcon Solutions Store retail channel, together with Autodesk, plans to expand top-tier service to civil-construction and BIM professionals through acquiring and adopting automation into their workflows.

RIEGL’s VP-1 Helicopter Pod features Smart Waveform LiDAR using the VUX-240 Airborne Scanner.

In November, 2019, the U.S. Department of Interior made the decision to ground its 531-strong drone force, with the exception of drones being used for emergency purposes such as fighting wildfires and conducting search and rescue missions.

In sharing some tragic instrument memories, I hope to encourage those people who use surveying instruments on a daily basis along with the occasional user.

John Houston is not a surveyor. He’s not a heavy traveler, either. So what was he doing on a speck of an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, knee deep in brush and muck operating a high-accuracy GNSS receiver?

Leica Geosystems announced BLK3D Web, an online collaboration workflow that extends the Leica BLK3D imager by enabling users to share 3D measurable images with anyone, anywhere online.