All posts by Annie Ellis

Keeping Traffic Moving and Roads Improving

When construction company Matthäi was hired to complete the resurfacing of the busy B420 road around Fürfeld in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, it needed to navigate tight deadlines and tricky working conditions. One of the biggest obstacles Matthäi faced with this project was avoiding heavy traffic jams caused by road closures. Because of this, the decision was...

John Palatiello: 40 Years on the Geospatial Job

On January 18, 1982, John Palatiello started his job as the first Joint Government Affairs Director of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) and the American Society of Photogrammetry (ASP), in Falls Church, Virginia. That touched off a 40-year career in association management in service to the surveying, mapping, geospatial, architecture, and engineering...

NSPS Appoints Timothy W. Burch Executive Director

The Board of Directors of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Timothy W. Burch, PLS, as its new Executive Director. Mr. Burch is the current President-Elect of NSPS and is a Professional Land Surveyor licensed in the States of Illinois and Wisconsin. Tim has been involved with...

xyHt Magazine Digital Edition: October 2021

Welcome to xyHt‘s October issue. Please enjoy our features on the impact geospatial technologies are making on history. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, never fear, here is the digital edition. Click here or on the cover to...

Italy and NASA to Land First GNSS Receiver on the Moon

A 2023 lander in the moon’s Mare Crisium will carry the first GNSS receiver to that planet’s surface: the Navigation Early Investigation on Lunar surface (NEIL) receiver with software-defined radio (SDR) technology. The receiver will spring from agreements between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Italian...