Call for Papers: Special Collection on Precision Surveying and Alignment

Guest Editors:
Sergio Baselga, Ph.D., M.ASCE, Universitat Politècnica de València
Michael J. Olsen, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, Oregon State University

Supporting scientific and technological projects through surveying engineering faces demanding challenges, particularly when the required accuracies of the measurements are at the limit of the state-of-the-art. As a result, a relatively small amount of measurements can be acquired given the time, cost, effort, and other challenges associated with their attainment. The high accuracy that instruments can achieve must be preserved by the surveying methods used, considering the instrumental errors and corrections and those related to the environment –such as refraction— and to the different reference systems in use –such as vertical deflection— through the correct modeling of all the intervening parameters. For many practitioners, it can be difficult to understand how and when it is appropriate to apply these corrections.

To facilitate broader awareness and discussion, this special collection welcomes papers dealing with novel methods and instruments for precision surveying and alignment with their applications to the different fields of science and engineering, including construction surveys for large engineering projects, railway track surveying, local-tie surveying, deformation monitoring, complex facility surveying, tunnel surveying, linking indoor and outdoor surveys, and precise alignment in particle accelerators and their accurate ground and underground geodetic networks.

Papers accepted in this Special Collection will be published in the corresponding regular issue of the journal and also added to the Special Collection online site.