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2007 archive
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Surveyors hail S. Resolution 361
Earlier this year, Senator George Allen (VA) and Senator Ted Stevens (Alaska) were sponsors of Senate Resolution 361 that passed in the U.S. Senate by voice vote on January 31st... Senate Resolution 361, article by David L. Holland, Virginia Association of Surveyors. Resolution
Abe Lincoln and the National Surveyors' Week, by James R. Riney, Kentucky Association of Professional Surveyors (accompanying article)
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Partners in science, technology, and public service
Far from the spotlight of TV cameras in picturesque southern Virginia, 50 years of geomagnetic research were celebrated—and a new future heralded. The Fredericksburg Geomagnetic Observatory in Corbin, which has for half a century been providing magnetic data for navigation—be it hiking, or piloting an aircraft, or sending a space shuttle into orbit—will from now on also be the site of NOAA’s National Ocean Service/National Geodetic Survey Laboratory and Training Center....Science, article by Ilse Genovese, ACSM
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GPS - The sky is the limit
For centuries, the only way to navigate was to look at the position of hte sun and stars and use dead reckoning. Even after modern clocks were developed, which made it possible to find one's longiutde, the most accurate instruments could yield a position that was accurate only to within a few miles. ... Gunther Greulich, for mer president of ACSM, presents a historical account of GPS--one that looks at the technology from the perspective of the ACSM community at the time GPS was investigated. GPS-The sky is the limit
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Unlike the 1804-06 Corps of Discovery led by Lewis & Clark, which set out to map the little known land along the route of the Missouri River to the northwest part of the country, the U.S. Coast Survey's Transcontinental Triangulation along the 39th parallel was more utilitarian in its purpose. Through painstaking determinations of latitude and longitude of recoverable survey markers along its route, the triangulation would provide a basic framework for all such future works by establishing primary control points for engineers and surveyors alike. ... Here, on the following pages is the story of the "most extensive piece of geodetic work attempted by any nation in the 19th century. The story is in three parts: Arc1; Arc 2; and Arc3. |
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