The adaptation of GPS for civilian use is the single greatest step taken by the land surveyor, more specifically the advance to real-time kinematic networks. Now unmanned aerial vehicles enable data ...

The surveyor has been known throughout history for many things: part expert measurer, part historian, part lawyer and part geographer. These attributes have led the surveyor to become a trusted member ...

As a land surveyor with a GPS [Global Positioning System] crew, I read “Sizing Up the Land” by Robert Smaus (April 6) with great interest. When land surveyors set tagged monuments on property lines, ...

At statehood, Alaska was promised more than 100 million acres of land. So far, the federal government has transferred just 65 percent of it. That's because it takes time to survey the land. At the ...

Recently, Hemisphere GPS announced the new S320 network rover and XF2 handheld data collector. With support for network RTK corrections, the S320 network rover is an integrated solution that ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 14 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy selected Trimble to supply its GPS Survey systems to the U.S. Marines to be used for topographic missions. Under the five-year contract, worth an ...

A new survey of GPs has revealed that over 40% intend to leave general practice within the next five years, an increase of nearly a third since 2014. The survey of 929 GPs conducted by the University ...

GPS services available in cars, over the phone and in handheld devices are used by only 17% of adults in the U.S., despite recent technology improvements and falling prices, according to an ...