How mini-drone Orthophotos save time and money
A narrated overview of an orthophoto of an ALDI store taken with the eBee UAV. Orthophotos have many benefits for record keeping, due diligence, surveying, and engineering. Because distortion is [...]
How UAV Drone Mapping is Revolutionizing Disaster Response
Amtrak disaster in Vermont An Amtrak passenger train derailed in Northfield, Vermont on October 5, 2015, injuring six people of a total of 98 passengers and four crew. One [...]
Bringing true UAV surveying to East Tennessee
We at Professional Land Systems are excited and enthusiastic to be the first to bring true aerial drone surveying to Tennessee. Why the distinction “true” aerial UAV surveys? We’ve found [...]
UAV and Drone Surveying comes to Knoxville
Professional Land Systems is enthusiastically adopting UAV (drone) survey technology. We are the first surveying company in Tennessee to do so. We believe that drone data collection represents a huge [...]
Knox County Setback Violation Forces House Move
A contractor-client of ours located a "spec" house on his own lot by himself. He had used us several times in the past to lay out houses, but did not [...]
2000 Sutherland settlement monitoring
February 2015 we conducted a primary level loop for settlement monitoring of approximately 140 columns of an existing warehouse at 2000 Sutherland Avenue. The site will be occupied by the [...]
No property is safe. Watch a roomful of government officials collude to take innocents’ property.
Every citizen should educate themselves concerning the threat of civil asset forfeiture. There is no presumption of innocence in such cases, and government is incentivized to take as much as [...]
Due diligence error results in $680,000 – 5,000 sq. ft. home built on the wrong lot
Palm Coast, Florida. Photo by Bob Koslow/Daytona Beach News-Journal."We are in total disbelief, just amazed this could happen," said Mark Voss, owner with Brenda Voss, of the luxury home constructed [...]
Spainhour v. B. Aubrey Huffman & Associates, Ltd.
Record No. 861164 Supreme Court of Virginia 237 Va. 340; 377 S.E.2d 615; 1989 Va. LEXIS 49; 5 VLR 1884 March 3, 1989 Appeal from a judgment of the Circuit [...]
“Locating property lines without the assistance of a Surveyor” is a Bad Idea
I spend a significant portion of my energies warning people about this. It's all I can do. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the City of Oak Ridge is suing [...]
