Based at Halifax during the winters, he mastered surveying with the plane table.
As the writer Rachel Lee Harris explains in "The World Maker Faire in Queens Draws Inventors," products range from zany (light-emitting dragons) to downright ingenious (land surveying with kites).
The old remark by the Comte de Salvandy comes right to mind; after surveying with intense dismay the deranged glitz that the young Duc d'Orleans had ordered up for his fete for the king of Naples, he said, "We are dancing on a volcano".
Or, as Nate puts it, surveying with chagrin the gradual change in the women of his acquaintance, now that they're in their thirties: When he was twenty-five, everywhere he turned he saw a woman who already had, or else didn't want, a boyfriend.
In other words, geomatics has its roots in traditional land surveying with instruments such as a theodolite and spirit level, and extends into more contemporary methods including GPS and 3D laser scanning.
Here we aim to enhance the integration of airborne LiDAR surveying with field-based inventories by exploring the effect of inventory plot size and number on the relationship between field-estimated and LiDAR-predicted wood volume in deciduous broad-leafed forest in central Germany.
