The drone market is projected to grow to $43 billion by 2024—a compound growth rate of around 20.5 percent, according to ResearchandMarkets.com.

The value of digital geospatial information is recognized in many applications, and today it touches nearly every part of our lives.

To demonstrate the RTL-400’s capability in the area of precision agriculture, RedTail staff researched various agricultural flight options and hit on an idea: What better way to demonstrate the high-resolution, high-accuracy system than in one of the toughest challenges that could be found – a corn maze.

Land-use consultancy Dresdner Robin provided expert services on the future home of Jersey City’s first Whole Foods Market.

“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.

On most major urban projects, long before the first bucket of dirt has been scooped, the first pile driven, even the first property corner verified, work, in the form of pre-construction survey and monitoring, has already been set in place.

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.

At times, the geospatial world sounds like it is “throwback Thursday.”

A police uniform serves as a very public reminder that the state vests the individual wearing it with the power of arrest and the use force when necessary. What, if anything, does the “uniform” of the average land surveyor communicate?

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