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.

Surveyors and geospatial professionals can help measure and quantify the impact we are having on our environment and the positive potential of steps to intervene and, as Esri Founder Jack Dangermond would say, "design our future."

Corey Albright, a geomatics student at Utah Valley University, shared the results of his capstone research project with POB. The project is intended to present the difference between RTK GNSS surveying and UAS (drone) surveying.

In the keynote speech kicking off HxGN Live 2019, Ola Rollén presented the challenge to use the technology we already have in smarter ways to improve productivity and efficiency, reduce waste, and pursue sustainability. He provided several interesting examples of how businesses are doing good things and making money at the same time.

The complexity of training and licensing and the lack of public awareness of the surveying profession combine to make it difficult to adopt some of the strategies employed by other professions to attract new talent.

For AEC firms, laser scanning technology is becoming a way to improve client engagement and drive new business.

With the current run to technology, much of the "Art of Land Surveying" is disappearing.

Although the majority of Americans do not use nautical charts on a regular basis, they unknowingly reap the benefits of accurate up-to-date maps of waterways, coastal areas, ports, etc.

Many court disputes over easements created for transmission lines and other utilities involve easements that are not appurtenant to any particular tract, commonly known as "easements in gross."

Increasingly, 3D laser scanning is making the day-to-day job of survey and scanning professionals faster, easier and more productive, but it requires a new way of thinking for the surveying community.