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: Series: Surveying the Panama Canal
A connected three-part story of route finding, construction, and ongoing measurement at the Panama Canal. Reading order: Part 1 (post 713), Part 2 (post 715), Part 3 (post 714).
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.