All posts by Jeff Thoreson

xyHt Digital Magazine: October 2023

xyHt magazine’s October issue goes inside the GNSS rover to see exactly what’s in it and reveal how the technology works its magic. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital edition. Click here or...

Is It Really Impossible?

Looking Forward As the saying goes, it’s only impossible until it’s not. In the past when I’ve heard, or used, this bon mot I would think of the moon landing in 1969. I think of all the early astronomers who gazed at and intensely studied heavenly bodies, using them for navigation and location while knowing...

xyHt Digital Magazine: September 2023

xyHt magazine’s September issue goes inside the GNSS rover to see exactly what’s in it and reveal how the technology works its magic. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital edition. Click here or...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/21/23

Bad Elf Launches Flex® Mini High-Accuracy Bluetooth GNSS Receiver Collaborative Autonomous Drone Fleets for Next-level UAS Operations Trimble Dimensions: Last Chance to Register Early and Save USGIF Announces Six New Board Members For 2023-2024 Sanborn Employee Doug Browning Wins “MVP” at ESRI UC 2023 Where are They Now: The USGIF Intern Experience Topcon Introduces Aptix...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/07/23

TDI-Brooks Completes Shallow Water Geotechnical Coring Project Off Us East Coast FARO Technologies Appoints Peter Lau as President and Chief Executive Officer WGIC Welcomes Nominations for DEI Trailblazer Awards 2023 Topcon Acquired Finnish Industrial Radio Solutions Leader Satel Leica Introduces Hybrid Imaging and Lidar Sensor for Large-Area Mapping Experience the Trimble Community in Action in...

The Flow of Information

Looking Forward I remember years ago in the dial-up days of the Internet how all the IT people were talking about the coming “information superhighway” that would change life as we know it. And, as much as simple minds like mine couldn’t fathom it, they were right. Information came at us like a Porsche convoy...