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xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/19/2023

New Ways to Use Drones for Inspections and Quality Control AEM Hall of Fame Seeks to Break More New Ground HawkEye 360 Begins Manufacturing of Satellite Clusters Under Space Flight Laboratory’s Flex Production Program Drone Nerds Will Feature Thought Leaders for ElevateUAV Summit National Geodetic Survey’s Special NGS DAY at FIG Working Week 2023 NV5...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/05/2023

Leica Geosystems Introduces Pegasus TRK100 Sanborn Pioneers the Digital Twin Base Map Nexar Revolutionizes Map-Making with 40x Reduction in Real-Time Costs Bluesky and Ecopia Partner to Create First 3D Map of Ireland $300 Million Earmarked for Bridge Projects as Part of Investing in America Agenda Local Surveyors Show Students Ins And Outs Of The Job Bluesky,...

From Nadir to Oblique

Spic-and-Span Bridges  Inspecting the world’s iconic bridges is becoming a UAV job  When it was time last year to inspect the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the steel arc structure that spans the harbor of Australia’s capital, authorities Down Under turned to the latest technology available: drones.   “The sky’s the limit when it comes to this technology....

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 04/7/2023

More Than 135 Exhibitors Set for September Commercial UAV Expo   SAM Companies Acquires Carolina Surveying Services Inc.  Globhe Expands to Inspect Wind Rotor Blades Globally  NGS Day at FIG Working Week 2023   Pete Buttigieg Still Believes in Smart Cities   Land Surveyors are Aging and Retiring in Michigan Amid Ongoing Needs  Next Generation Street-Level 3D...

xyHt Magazine Heights 2023

Click on the cover to view the Heights 2023 supplement to xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include: From Nadir to Oblique: From traditional airplanes to new-fangled gyroplanes, we take a look at several aspects of the aerial geospatial technologies that just keep getting better. The Future of Photogrammetry: While UAVs continue to emerge as aerial mapping vehicles, there...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 03/31/2023

The First 30cm High-Definition Global Imagery Basemap Woolpert Opens Paris Office, Expands Support for European Customers CNH Industrial to Acquire Hemisphere GNSS Automation Asset Inspection Company Thread Expands into Canada Esri Book Demonstrates How to Create Map Apps with User Experience in Mind The Integration of BIM Data and City Models Using Geo-BIM  VOTIX and Iris Automation...