Eric Colburn, PLS

Tag: Measure

  • Professional Land Surveyor Premium Post Updates

    Professional Land Surveyor Premium Post Updates

    Professional Land Surveyor Premium Post Updates I was just updating the Premium Membership Specials page by adding a list of all the Premium Posts I’ve published to date. I did not realize that they now add up to over 40 premium posts, how time flies when you’re having fun (and I am!). To sign up,…

  • Knowing Your Numbers-How to Develop Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    Knowing Your Numbers-How to Develop Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    If you’ve followed the last few Premium Posts, then you know that I’ve been working through the “Knowing Your Numbers” series of posts, describing how to use Metrics in your professional land surveying business. To date, I’ve written Knowing Your Numbers-Business Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company, an article on which business metrics you can use…

  • Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    In earlier Premium Posts, I wrote Knowing Your Numbers-Business Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company, an article on which business metrics you can use to run your land surveying business, and Knowing Your Numbers-How To Measure Your Success, an article on the importance of developing your own set of metrics and benchmarks to accurately measure your success.…

  • Knowing Your Numbers-Business Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

    A while back, I wrote Knowing Your Numbers-How To Measure Your Success, an article on the importance of developing your own set of metrics and benchmarks to accurately measure your success, or failure, which is something we all need to understand. In this Premium Membership post I expand on that theme; specifically how to use Business Metrics…

  • Knowing Your Numbers-Land Surveying Field Metrics for Success

    A while back, I wrote Knowing Your Numbers-How To Measure Your Success, an article on the importance of developing your own set of metrics and benchmarks to accurately measure your success, or failure, which is something we all need to understand. In this Premium Membership post I expand on that theme; specifically how to use land surveying…

  • Professional Land Surveyor News-Nikon-Trimble Introduces New Nikon 1″ and 3″ Total Stations

    Professional Land Surveyor News-Nikon-Trimble Introduces New Nikon 1″ and 3″ Total Stations COLOGNE, Germany, Oct. 5, 2010 – Nikon-Trimble Co., Ltd. introduced today the Nikon® Nivo™ 1.C one- second angle accuracy, reflectorless mechanical total station. In addition, Nikon-Trimble introduced the Nikon DTM-322, an economical, prism-based 3″ dual-faced total station that provides a strong value proposition…

  • Professional Land Surveyor News-Leica Viva TS15-Robotic Imaging Total Station World Premiere at INTERGEO 2010

    Professional Land Surveyor News-Leica Viva TS15-Robotic Imaging Total Station World Premiere at INTERGEO 2010

    5 October 2010, (Heerbrugg/Cologne) Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce its new robotic Imaging Total Station, the Leica Viva TS15. This state-of-the-art total station provides advanced imaging functionality combined with dynamic tracking capabilities for one-person surveying. Furthermore, Leica Viva TS15 features the easy-to-use Leica SmartWorx Viva onboard software.

  • Knowing Your Numbers-How To Measure Your Success

    Know your numbers to measure your success. We all need to know our numbers, but do you know what numbers are important for your success? The metrics and benchmarks to accurately measure our success, or failure, is something we all need to understand. This is true in any professional land surveyor business, whether you are…

  • Professional Land Surveyor News: Topcon DL-500 Digital Level Series With First ‘Wave-and-Read’ Technology

    Professional Land Surveyor News: Topcon DL-500 Digital Level Series With First ‘Wave-and-Read’ Technology Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announced this week that they’ve released their new DL-500 digital levels series, which uses digital ‘Wave-and-Read’ Technology for the very first time. Of course we’ve had optical ‘Wave-and-Read’ technology for eons – it’s called an instrument person looking…

  • China and Nepal Agree to Disagree on Height of Mount Everest

    China and Nepal Agree to Disagree on Height of Mount Everest I came across an interesting article at the end of last week about how China and Nepal agreed to disagree on the exact height of Mount Everest. The Nepalese and Chinese governments negotiated last week to solve the 150 year old question, but in…

  • Study: Economic Value of NOAA’s Geodetic Services at $2.4 Billion

    Proposed Modernization Program to Net Additional $522 Million The NOAA-managed National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), the official U.S. government source for precise latitude, longitude and elevation measurements, provides more than $2.4 billion in potential annual benefits to the U.S. economy, according to a new independent study. Refining and modernizing the system for measuring elevation has…