Eric Colburn, PLS

Tag: Tracking

  • 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.…

  • Locata Passes Critical U.S. Air Force Ground-Based Positioning System Design Review Milestone

    Locata Passes Critical Design Review Milestone for U.S. Air Force Ground-Based Positioning System Locata Prototypes a System for Centimeter-Accurate Positioning Over Large Areas When GPS Is Completely Denied IRVINE, CA and CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA–(Marketwire – Sep 8, 2011) – Locata Corporation today announced it has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) contract phase for a Locata network…

  • Topcon GR-5 Satellite Receiver Sets New Standard in Signal Tracking, Job Site Precision

      LIVERMORE, Calif. – March 17, 2011 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) introduces its patented Fence AntennaTM technology and expanded channel support in the new GR-5 GNSS receiver. The GR-5 provides industry-leading tracking sensitivity and multipath rejection in a compact and lightweight package. In 2006, Topcon introduced the GR-3 GNSS receiver, which made the term…

  • 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-Topcon Introduces QS Robotic Total Station Series

    Professional Land Surveyor News-Topcon Introduces QS Robotic Total Station Series LIVERMORE, Calif. – November 8, 2010 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) introduces its new generation of robotic total stations, the QS Series (Quick Station). The QS Series – featuring the X-TRAC 8 prism tracking technology – is designed to “provide unprecedented power and speed to…

  • Professional Land Surveyor News-Carlson Software’s 2011 Office Product Release

    Professional Land Surveyor News-Carlson Software’s 2011 Office Product Release Hundreds of Improvements to Speed Work and Increase AccuracyHighlight Carlson Software’s 2011 Office Product Release MAYSVILLE, Ky., U.S.A. (September 30, 2010) — Carlson Software, a leading producer of software for land development professionals in the surveying, civil engineering, construction and mining industries, has released its 2011…

  • 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…

  • NORAD Tracks Santa

    If you have children (old and young) looking for the location of Santa on this Christmas Eve, you can track his gift giving journey on NORAD’s website. NORAD has been tracking Santa since 1955 beginning with NORAD’s predecessor, the Continental Defense Command (CONAD). In 1958 NORAD replaced CONAD taking over the mission of tracking Santa’s…