Building on SUE, SUM, and BIM to Advance Underground Stewardship. For some reason, utility contractors over the years did not take the time to record subsurface information at the needed level of detail. by Mike Twohig The use of Subsurface Utility Mapping (SUE) dates back to the early 1980s. In 1991, SUE gained an official endorsement from the Federal Highway […]
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SUMSF 2022: March 22 – March 23, The Virtual Subsurface Utility Mapping Strategy Forum Conference. GoGeomatics and the chair of SUMSF, Geoff Zeiss of between the poles, presents SUMSF 2022: March 22 – March 23 with workshops from March 24th – 25th, 2022. https://sumsforum.com/ SUMSF 2022 is a free virtual event that will bring together individuals and organizations who wish […]
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DGT Associates Launches Owned Subsurface Mobile Mapping System Solution Enables Safer, Faster, More Accurate Capture of Underground Environment BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DGT Associates, New England’s leading surveying and engineering firm, announced the ownership and launch of a state-of-the-art, subsurface mobile mapping system—the latest advancement to the firm’s existing Subsurface Utility Mapping service line. With ownership of this mobile underground mapping system, DGT […]
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Governments are beginning to mandate that underground infrastructure mapping be carried out as national policy. Underground infrastructure mapping of utilities and other infrastructure is one of the major challenges in creating a digital twin at the municipal, regional, and national level. LiDAR reality capture of the above-ground ground features simultaneously with ground penetrating radar (GPR) scans of subsurface infrastructure at […]
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