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xyHt Magazine May 2018 Issue

Click on the cover below to view the May 2018 issue of xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include (links will turn live throughout May): Open Source for Enterprise Solutions – A geospatial firm integrates open-source GIS and cloud services for the DoD’s IT security, a giant energy co-op managing 2,500 miles of transmission lines,...

Weekly xyHt News Links: 04/27/2018

TerraGo Adds Time-Series Visualization to GeoPDF® Hemisphere GNSS Announces Family of Rugged Handheld Devices for Mobile Applications DT Research’s new military-grade tablet has RTK GNSS Topcon acquires outstanding Viasys VDC holdings Bentley Systems Acquires Plaxis, and Complementary SoilVision, to Integrate Geotechnical Engineering within Digital Workflows for Infrastructure Projects  

Powerline Inspection

Drone? Ground? Helicopter? For years now drones, UAVs, UASs or whatever you wish to call them have been the revolution that promises to change the way we live.  Five+ years into the drone revolution we are seeing some change—but it has certainly been a slower progression than expected.  Linewise Aerial specializes in transmission line inspection...

Parrot Bluegrass Pangaea

Low-cost Tech for Aerial Archeology, Part One

Last February we took a look at how airborne lidar is revolutionizing the science of archeology in Lidar and The Lost City of the Monkey God. Lidar is nothing less than a godsend for the search for lost cities and civilizations. But it comes at a price, one that cash-strapped archeologists can’t always afford. I’d...

Law & Order

The sunlight had magically poked through the winter aspen forest in such a way as to warm through two areas in the snow, both of them survey monuments lying about four feet apart. One was a 3 and 1/4-inch aluminum cap, stamped with the surveyor’s state license number, posted with a government-issued, yellow “Forest Service...

Weekly xyHt News Links: 04/20/2018

SimActive Automates Drone Data Processing Exact Metrology Introduces Artec Ray Laser Scanner Teledyne Optech to showcase its Airborne and Terrestrial survey systems at GEOINT 2018 ENGINEERSUPPLY ANNOUNCES NEW PRODUCTS FROM SCHONSTEDT SPAR 3D Expo & Conference 2018 Keynote Speakers Announced Trimble Announces New Field Solutions for Land and Construction Surveying New Indoor Mobile Mapping System...

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