All posts by xyHt

Joshua T. Rayburn

Mobile Mapping Manager at Leica Geosystems, NAFTA Lidar and mobile mapping systems may be getting easier to operate, but to operate them effectively and efficiently requires a helping hand in the form of training and support. Joshua Rayburn has grown a community of top-end users by focusing on creating strong customer relationships, and he’s committed...

Shannon Hoy

Graduate Student at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering, University of New Hampshire Many of the future’s motivated leaders in their respective fields gain a lifetime of experience while they’re still enrolled as students and student researchers. Young people interested in entering geospatial professions can read numerous...

Jie Zhang

PhD Senior Researcher at Imagister Solutions, Ltd The use of GNSS in consumer applications dwarfs high-precision uses by orders of magnitude. With a substantial amount of GNSS research being performed for such uses, it is likely that the great breakthroughs in, for instance, indoor signal-based navigation will come from related labs and researchers. Jie Zhang...

Jeremiah Johnson

Flight Test Engineer at 3D Robotics Just as test pilots for manned aircraft need to have the “right stuff,” so do UAS pilots. Jeremiah Johnson, surveyor and pilot, got his start at a surveying company in Texas where he wrote tools for the QC of aerial data captured by the company’s manned helicopters. After realizing...

Javier Garcia Robles

Remote Sensing Engineer at Altamira Information Javier Garcia Robles specializes in the field of advanced satellite radar interferometry (InSAR) studies, with seven years’ experience in Earth observation (EO). He received an MS in telecommunications engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Spain, and since then he has been working in radar and optical data...

Caitlin Blundell

Director of Geographic Design Caitlin Blundell launched Geographic Design in 2011 after graduating from the University of Toronto with an MA in geography; Geographic Design provides GIS services to clients in the urban design industry. She excels at communicating the value of geospatial data, tools, and technology to people outside our sector. Caitlin is on...