Engineering & Infrastructure
Surveying the Panama Canal, Part 3: Measuring a Living Canal
How hydrography, deformation monitoring, as-builts, and modern geospatial control support an operating and expanding canal.
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Tag: Panama Canal
Reports, histories, and working notes filed under this subject.
Engineering & Infrastructure
Surveying the Panama Canal, Part 2: Control, Excavation, Locks, and the Culebra Cut
The survey control, grades, quantities, alignment, and records behind the canal’s locks, dam, and massive excavation.
Engineering & Infrastructure
Surveying the Panama Canal, Part 1: Finding a Route Between Two Oceans
How reconnaissance, maps, levels, rivers, and competing canal concepts shaped the choice of a route across Panama.