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xyHt Weekly News Links: 9/18/20
Esri Releases 4th Edition of Getting to Know Web GIS Trimble Acquires MdStates VRS MGISS Reveals Underground Highway Assets IGARSS 2020 Hosts Geospatial Business Startup Workshop Spectra Receiver Chosen for Around-the-World Yacht Race Esri Acquires nFrames to Enhance 3D Capabilities
Safety First: Using Small Drones to Map Unsafe Sites
Traditionally, photogrammetry based on aerial images and stereo plotting, has been the realm of large mapping companies capable of affording the onerous ownership of planes and the high personnel cost of pilots, navigators and camera operators. The equipment used to convert the stereoscopic pairs into contour line maps cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and...
Seeing the Light: Laser Accuracy with LightXY
On a construction site, cement and concrete finishers, carpenters, framers, electricians, plumbers, flooring installers, and other trades people spend a lot of time taking measurements and interpreting blueprints before they can even start any of the specialized tasks they are trained and paid to perform. Until recently, it was not possible to project the blueprints...
Doers: James Cooper
Leaving school at 15 years old with little education wasn’t unusual in the UK before it was compulsory to complete your education and take exams. That’s the path James Cooper found himself on in 1972, but he made the best of it. Suffering from both dyscalculia and dysgraphia, he found school a challenge. This is...
Geospatial Adventure: Mapping Ruins from Above in Peru
It wasn’t quite an Indiana Jones adventure, but Alabama-based lidar consultant Robert Graham says it’s as close as he’ll ever come to the hair-raising exploits of an audacious archaeology professor. Graham’s adventure last April did not revolve around an ark, though it did include ancient ruins, small planes landing in grass fields, machetes hacking through...
xyHt Weekly News Links: 09/11/20
Gary Sladic Appointed to USGIF Board of Directors Applanix Introduces Next Generation OEM Solution for Georeferencing of Sensor Data AirMap and DoD Partner to Develop AirBoss Aerial Intelligence Platform Geospatial World Leadership Award Winners
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