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Fixposition’s Vision-RTK Pro + Esri Is a Game Changer
The streets of modern cities are lined with glass and steel, forests close their canopy around remote infrastructure projects, and construction zones sprawl across bridges, tunnels, and high-rise footprints. These are not exceptions but the everyday environments in which surveyors and mapping professionals work. Yet in these very settings, the bedrock of their craft—centimeter-level GNSS...
xyHt Magazine September 2025
Read the September 2025 xyHt digital edition. Table of Contents GIS Needs Geodesy – Why accuracy matters more than ever as GIS expands into digital twins, utilities, and infrastructure management. Topcon 2.0: Reclaiming the Geomatics Frontier – A strategic reset positions Topcon’s new Geomatics Group at the center of connected workflows. The Essential Instrument –...
Fresh Specs That Are Lifting the UAV Game
The latest UAV technologies released in the first quarter of this year seem to be bucking the trend of white-washed main frames and disappearing control buttons commonly seen in the last five years. Instead, the current crop of drones is gaining more advanced robotic payloads, as well as imbibing unconventional shapes that allow for better...
Heights 2025
Click on the cover to view the Heights 2025 supplement to xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include: Quantum Sensing: Profound change could be ahead for airborne reality capture and mapping, in the realm of quantum physics. Ready, Set, Modernize: ASPRS is preparing the geospatial industry for the modernized National Spatial Reference System. A Green Light for Shoreline Mapping:...
xyHt Digital Magazine: May/June 2025
xyHt magazine’s combined May and June issue focuses on aerial surveying and mapping and takes an in-depth look at topics from tropical glaciers to government advocacy. 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...
xyHt Digital Magazine: April 2025
xyHt magazine’s April issue focuses on surveying and takes an in-depth look at the modern state of the art of surveying. 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 on the cover...