Surveying in the News

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How to Avoid a Turf War, and 5 Other Things Your Surveyor Wishes You Knew
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Surveyor in the News

Once-living Monument Found
When a private surveyor prodded the soil just to the west of Spring Grove a few weeks ago, in search of a buried monument, he got a surprise. Click here to read the full story...

LightSquared Taking Another Run at the FCC

LightSquared is seeking FCC approval for a plan it argues will allow its broadband service to co-exist with GPS. Click here for the full story...

Surveying in the News

Surveying was a Rough Business
Shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War, the leaders of the fledgling United States of America realized that the land west of the original 13 states – ceded to the new government by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 – was, quite literally, uncharted territory. Click here to read full story...

Data is the crop: GNSS used by Surveyors and Farmers

As technology continues to march forward, and storage and data evaluation use grows, the surveyor and the farmer will begin to use each other’s skillsets to increase their own productivity. So how do we get there? First, we must establish how each side uses their prospective GPS tools. Click here to read the full story...

LightSquared Settles GPS Lawsuit With Trimble Navigation

“Trimble and New LightSquared have agreed to work together with the relevant government agencies to implement a mutually acceptable compromise approach to resolution of the outstanding issues relating to use of New LightSquared’s spectrum,” a LightSquared spokeswoman said. Click here to read full story...

LightSquared and Deere Settle GPS Spectrum Lawsuit

Under its deal with Deere, LightSquared has agreed to forgo a portion of its spectrum nearest to the GPS signal and instead will use frequencies that are further away from the GPS signal. In return, Deere said it won’t object to LightSquared’s deployment of its wireless broadband network. Click Here to Read the Full Story...

Lightsquared in the News

Federal regulators approved LightSquared’s request to transfer its valuable spectrum licenses to a newly formed company.. Click here to read full story...

Surveying Around the Globe

Massive Geolocation Coverage Project is Underway in Belarus

According to a recent press release issued by the State Property Committee of Belarus, up to 85 percent of the territory of that country is going to have been covered by its precise geolocation system by the close of this year.  Click here to read full story...

Surveyors In The News

Water Flows Downhill
Isn’t that title a profound and brilliant deduction? Water, in the form of rain, hits the ground and is immediately absorbed or flows away to a creek somewhere. But, this effect is so noteworthy as to be mentioned in hundreds of deeds that are recorded in the county clerk’s office at the courthouse. It is so important that many surveyors still use the phrase “and lying on the waters of So-and-So Creek” to help describe where the surveyed property can be found.  Click here to read the full story...