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Measure This!

by Nathan Sandler

A podcast for the geospatially inclined.Measure This! Is: *interviews of geospatial leaders who will change the way you look at your work *stories about projects that might suprise and inspire you *updates on current events and how our industry is making a difference

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Episodes

  1. [EP 20] Modern Solutions to Historic Challenges with Doug Reed

    Keeping an eye on the structural components of a 189-foot historic chimney has traditionally meant building scaffolding and sending people to precarious heights – a time-consuming, costly, and dangerous endeavor. Doug Reed of Meridian Associates talks about how a small drone equipped with a...

  2. [EP 19] Talking with Frank Relou of Sea Machines

    Frank Relou, European Business Development Manager at Sea Machines, talks about his company’s new autonomous technology for marine vehicles and its impact on surveying and mapping ocean waters.

  3. [EP 18] Democratization of GPS with Nikolas Smilovsky from Bad Elf

    The geospatial world is not slowing down, in fact, it is expanding–this conversation with a university professor and GPS expert demonstrates the greater need for geodetic control in modern society - https://bad-elf.com/

  4. [EP 17] Autonomous Infrastructure with Dr. James Selevan

    Dr. James Selevan talks on preparing our transportation infrastructure for autonomous/assisted navigation – Pi-Variables INC. pi-lit.com

  5. [EP 16] Talking with James Cooper of Survey Solutions

    How a surveyor started his solo surveying business 20 years ago, diversified services to weather several economic downturns, and grew to one of the largest multi-discipline surveying firms in the UK. With our guest James Cooper, MRICS MCInstCES MCIHT FRGS, CEO of Survey Solutions (UK)

  6. [EP 15] Fab n' Dave talk seamless 3D meshes

    Fab n' Dave, Aussie surveying and remote sensing whiz kids with Aeromterex talk their work on projects ranging from individual sites to entire 3D cities using methods they have developed for producing seamless aerial+terrestrial 3D meshes. With guests Fabrice Marre and David Byrne.

  7. [EP 14] Digital Connectedness with Michael Dix

    Growing your surveying and geospatial mobile data and communications skills and tools with Michael Dix

  8. [EP 13] Distance learning with Joe Paiva

    Joe Paiva discusses trends in distance learning for surveying and geospatial professionals. geo-learn.com - [email protected]

  9. [EP 12] Global Surveying with John Hamilton

    John Hamilton PLS, is a surveyor in Pennsylvania that does geodetic, monitoring, and engineering surveying all over the world, including work with Engineers Without Borders (EWB). He talks about some of his latest projects in Ecuador, where he used the RTX precise point positioning service with…

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  10. [EP 11] Corryn Greenawalt talks about adapting to COVID-19 through online surveying programs

    Gavin talks about transitioning to online programs amidst the COVID-19 event with guest Corryn Greenawalt, Surveying Program Director at Flathead Valley Community College (https://www.fvcc.edu/programs/natural-sciences-mathematics-engineering-surveying/surveying).

  11. [EP 10] Mapping an Entire Country with Rohan Verma

    Gavin talks mapping applications with Rohan Verma, CEO and Executive Director of MapmyIndia.

  12. [EP 9] Talking with Dr. Joseph Kerski on Mentoring in the Age of Automation

    Gavin and Joseph answer reader questions with geospatial figure Dr. Joseph Kerski–distinguished geographer, author, and educator.

  13. [EP 8] Practical Droning with Zach Pieper of Quantum Land Design and Aeroview Services LLC

    Gavin Schrock talks with Zach Pieper about interdisciplinary solutions in the ever-evolving fields of UAV flight, surveying, excavation, and machine control.

  14. [EP 7] Amanda Allred VP-Elect for the NSPS

    xyHt's Gavin Schrock interviews Amanda Allred, a distinguished surveyor with the Corps of Engineers – and the incoming VP for the NSPS.

  15. [EP 6] Amr Raafat, the 2019 Autodesk Innovator of the Year

    Amr’s novel use of BIM—often meshed for the first time ever with technologies such as drone mapping, virtual reality, mixed reality, laser scanning and more—helped make him the first U.S. citizen to receive this honor.

  16. [EP 5] Lewis Graham from GeoCue on lidar in unmanned aircraft

    Neil interviews Lewis Graham, president and CTO of GeoCue. Lewis advises on transitioning to new technologies, including when surveyors resist relaxing accuracy.

  17. [EP 4] David Daly, owner of Vigilante Enterprises

    David Daly, owner of Vigilante Drones and Vigilante Cares and an Iraq & Afghanistan war veteran, talks with Neil about using UAVs as therapy tools for veterans with PTSD.

  18. [EP 3] Talking with Steve Kasten of Surdex

    Mapping a Levee: An aggressively scheduled survey project mapping the alignment of a levee along the Mississippi River during flooding was undertaken using multiple aerial and hydrographic platforms, which reduced costs but created the challenge of merging elevation data from temporal data sets....

  19. [EP 2] Talking with Alexis Smith, founder and CEO of IMGeospatial

    xyHt magazine editor Gavin Schrock, PLS, interviews Alexis Hannah Smith, the founder and CEO of IMGeospatial. Her company creates data intelligence products via machine learning, artificial intelligence, automatic feature extraction, and remote-sensed data for multiple industries, globally. It…

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  20. [EP 1] Talking with Tim Burch, VP of the National Society of Professional Land Surveyors

    In this inaugural episode, Neil interviews Tim Burch, the vice president of NSPS and a land surveyor, on topics ranging from keeping up with surveying technology to NSPS’s success in attracting youth and their new initiatives.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A podcast for the geospatially inclined.Measure This! Is: *interviews of geospatial leaders who will change the way you look at your work *stories about projects that might suprise and inspire you *updates on current events and how our industry is making a difference

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Nathan Sandler

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A podcast for the geospatially inclined.Measure This! Is: *interviews of geospatial leaders who will change the way you look at your work *stories about projects that might suprise and inspire you *updates on current events and how our industry is making a difference

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