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Anton is an engineer from Australia. His team have been using the Precis-BX305 GNSS/GPS system for unexploded ordinance (UXO) detection projects in Australia, New Zealand and Laos.
A major Hydrographic Survey in the Bering Sea off northwestern Alaska has just been successfully completed using the Teledyne/Oceanscience rapidCAST profiling system using the Valeport rapidSV profiler.
July 6th, 2017 – The Argent Cosmos, a chemical tanker, was transiting up Columbia River enroute to China. Near Skamokawa, Washington a fuel pump issue caused lose of propulsion. Anchor was dropped and lost (2 knots of river current). Ballard Marine (Washougal WA) was called in to retrieve the anchor and clear the busy navigation channel. Seahorse Geomatics (Portland OR) was called by Ballard to id…
Drones (also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are used for various applications such as surveying, surveillance and habitat mapping. An interesting new application is precision agriculture. Drones can be used for precise crop-management, vegetation analysis, volume measurement, 3dmodels creation and many other uses. You can find a selection of 5 precision agriculture drones.
Land surveying is an incredibly challenging and complex job as the world continues to meet problems of land scarcity and a growing population.
Land surveyors have long since mapped territories utilizing a range of traditional methods and tools such as manned flights, satellite data, robotic total stations, GPS receivers, retroreflectors, 3D scanners, handheld tablets, digital levels, subsurface…
