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Ranger Magazine
Ranger Magazine
Ranger Magazine is the journal of the Defence Surveyors' Association and is sent to all members on a regular basis.
In this edition of Ranger… As this is the first edition of Ranger that has been produced with me as the Editor I now have a much better understanding of how much effort is required before the magazine is ready for publication. Therefore, I would like to thank Alan Gordon…
In this edition of Ranger… ...in addition to the usual mix of articles across time and technologies we tell the story of twenty years of non-stop operational deployments. There have been Military Survey/Geographic troops deployed overseas on operations on every single day since 1990 when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and…
In this edition of Ranger… ...our cover story is the exercising of the Freedom of Newbury by 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic). RE Geo has had personnel deployed on operations continuously since Operation GRANBY was launched in 1990 to counter Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Throughout the intervening years troops have…
In this edition of Ranger… ...we include articles from across the Defence geospatial community, both military and commercial, and indeed from across the world with a view from Colonel Jim Mitchell in the USA and not one but two submissions from New Zealand. All are looking at the issues that…
In this edition of Ranger… ...we have an unashamed bias towards Military Survey/Royal Engineers (Geographic) in that we commemorate not one but two 60th anniversaries; the granting of the title ‘School of Military Survey’ and Hermitage as the home of Military Survey/Royal Engineers (Geographic). The title was bestowed on the…
In this edition of Ranger… ...we welcome ESRI as our new sponsor. As a leading GIS company and major supplier to the Defence industry it is most appropriate that the Association has developed a relationship with ESRI that spans both sides of the Atlantic. Leading this issue are articles reporting…
In this edition of Ranger… ...we advertise two very welcome and unique new books that will be of great interest to military surveyors. 260 years ago, somewhere near Fort Augustus in the centre of the Great Glen, a 21-year old Scotsman called William Roy made the first observations for what…
In this edition of Ranger… …we include articles to mark two significant events; the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands – Operation Corporate - and, more parochially, the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Sound Ranging Association, the forebear of the Defence Surveyors’ Association. Both, in…
In this edition of Ranger… ...yet again we have an impressive number of articles covering a wide range of subjects pertinent to those interested in defence geospatial matters. Some ninety years after the development of sound ranging on the Western Front Richard Perry’s article on 5th Regiment RA in Iraq…
In this edition of Ranger… ...we see that ‘change’ moves ever more remorselessly onwards with yet more reorganisation resulting in new groupings of units, different affiliations and changed titles. Perhaps for many the key change will be the end of the Royal School of Military Survey as a Royal Engineers…
In this edition of Ranger… ...we record the astounding changes in the technology and the hydrographic and geographic organisations that have taken place over the last 20 years – 20 of the most tumultuous years in history as almost nothing – political, commercial or technical is as it was in…
In this edition of Ranger… ...we carry news of the latest change in the status of the military geographic organisation – now called Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) and no longer an agency. Air Commodore Martin Hallam became Director DGI on the formation of the new organisation but he will relinquish…
In this edition of Ranger… ...we have a ‘first’ in that we have an article on Engineering Surveying, a defence geomatics field not previously discussed in Ranger but one which is very closely related to the Associations’ core areas of Hydrography and Geography. As well as describing the career structure…