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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Land Survey"”.
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Accelerated Least Squares Network Adjustments and Graph Decompositions
Land surveyors generally use archaic data management procedures with very little automation. One of the issues preventing development of more automated data management systems is the integration of the land survey data, as the standard method does not scale well. In this project we explore …
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The young Thomas Jefferson's geographic thought, 1743 - 1784
… life and his writings until 1784, to provide a survey of his geographic thought. It will look at his work in surveying, cartography, climatology, his influence on military movements during the Revolutionary War, his contribution to the Public Land Survey System, and the compilation of Notes on …
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Factors That Affect the Global Positioning System and Global Navigation Satellite System in an Urban and Forested Environment.
… included coordinates determined by conventional land survey methods; the second was solved by RTK GPS/GLONASS. Once the magnitude of any deviation in the coordinate positions was determined, the contributions to the accuracies from cycle slips, multipath, satellite availability, PDOP, and fixed …
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Vulnerability to jökulhlaup hazards: A case study of the Þjórsá floodplain, Southern Iceland
… impacts of jökulhlaups. One area in southern Iceland, located around the Þjórsá River and bordered by the Hvítá and Rangá rivers, is particularly vulnerable to the effects of a potential jökulhlaup. Vulnerability of the human, natural, and built environments was investigated, analysed, and mapped …
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A Multidisciplinary Approach for Determining the Extents of the Beds of Complex Natural Lakes in Louisiana
… lines separating state property from private lands have usually been set by determining the levels of natural monuments known as ordinary high water marks. The term is confusing and subjective, leading to controversy in reference to its determination. Catahoula Lake in central Louisiana was …
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Frontier Pedagogies: The Rhetorics of Expansion and Reform in Antebellum America
… overlapping ""pedagogical grids"" of the Public Land Survey System and the ""pseudo-science"" of phrenology; the second traces the rhetoric of citizen mobility in the ""weltering styles"" of Catherine Beecher and Margaret Fuller; and the third addresses the national work of both symbolic and …
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Land and land conflict in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process:1990-1999
… the importance of the debates and struggle over land in the Oslo Accord and immediately post-Oslo. It does this by first situating the conflict over land in the historical context of the spread of Zionism from the 1880s, culminating in the establishment of the State of Israel in Palestine in …
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Assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility in Tanzania Limited Companies: A case of Tanzania Portland Cement Company in Wazo Area
… in Limited Companies, A case at Tanzania Portland Cement Company Limited in Wazo Area. The study was guided by four objectives. First aim was to determine the existing relationship between the TPCC Company and the society around it, second to examine economic benefits a society gains from …
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A Sustainable Bio-Solids Management For The Grand Forks Wastewater Treatment Plant
… thoroughly for this research, and - on site land application shows some potential. After surveying the Municipal Waste Water Treatment Facilities of the five neighboring states of North Dakota, no specific method was obviously "the strongest solution" for the biosolids' scenario of the …
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The prospect
… object provides a view towards the surrounding landscape, it serves as a central component for considering how conceptualization of the land in the United States has changed over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, or simply said, a vision of the landscape from a productive …
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Exploring the challenges of quitrent rights on land use, development and ownership in the Eastern Cape
… quitrent rights system and the impact thereof on land and economic development in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. To appreciate the current challenges, one has to understand the historical development and complexities of the quitrent rights system. Many quitrent titles were surveyed in …
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Ending Well, Making the Harvest-Paths of Our Values
… practice towards a plural valuing of land and its constituent spirits. The journey begins in 2022 with my acquisition of a 99-year lease for a 5-acre land in Ghana. Prior to the conception of an academic proposal, this was to preserve and grow ecological and financial value through …
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Urban Law and Housing Policy in Zambia
… regard; the National Housing Authority Act, the Lands and Deeds Registry Act, the Land Survey Act, the Town and Country Planning Act, the Public Health Act and the Housing (Statutory and Improvement Areas) Act. These will be critically analysed in the work. Chapter One: This is an introductory …
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Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Orientation of Undergraduate Science Students in Rwanda
… of Civil engineering, Biotechnologies and Land Survey. They must have not attended any training in business skills development before. They were randomly split into two groups: the control group (N=49) which learned the business plan; the treatment group (N=68) which followed the New …
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Untersuchungen zur Kartographiegeschichte von Namibia
… der allgemeinen Verwaltung des Landes und der Organisation des Karten- und Vermessungswesens im Gebiet des heutigen Namibia, im Deutschen Reich und in Südafrika dargestellt. Diese Ausweitung des Themas erwies sich als notwendig, um die Hintergründe und das geschichtliche und …