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Steeped in History
Recently I spent a few days with my family at the remote cabin in the Sierra Nevada Mountains where I had retraced an 1876 mining claim boundary two years prior. I wrote about that experience here. Humoring the Old Man During this recent visit my daughters and sons-in-law humored me by agreeing to let me...
East Meets West Meets East
Above is the object lens for the FOCUS 35, one the largest for robotic total stations with the prism directly attached; this differs from the legacy prism stems that can reduce returned signals. Photos: G. Schrock, from a recent tour of the Spectra factory in Shanghai. Multiple, distinguished legacy companies in precision optics and manufacturing...
xyHt Magazine October 2019 Issue
Click on the cover below to view the October 2019 issue of xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include (links will turn live throughout October): East Meets West Meets East – Multiple, distinguished legacy companies in precision optics and manufacturing converged to develop a popular mid- to high-range total station that has earned a strong reputation. The...
Weekly xyHt News Links: 09/27/2019
Introducing the Geode GNS2 Sub-meter GPS Receiver Tallysman GNSS Introduces the VeroStar™ Antenna Expansion of Tallysman’s Line of Helical Antennas Vexcel Imaging Launches European Aerial Image Librar Woolpert Launches STREAM:RASTER to Host and Support Imagery in the Cloud 25th INTERGEO: Industry is constantly growing / Solutions for future challenges facing our planet Esri Publishes Mark...
The March toward 2022
Above: A screenshot of the GPS on Bench Marks web tool mobilized in 2018. NSRS modernization: What NGS is doing and what you can do. “The only thing that is constant is change.” – Heraclitus Although this quote pertains to all of life, its truth is especially painful for professional surveyors and geospatial professionals. But...
Outstanding Geospatial Trends at INTERGEO 2019
INTERGEO, the world’s largest summit in positioning and geospatial tech, wrapped up last week in Stuttgart, Germany, proving that even after 25 years it still can be a great show. It’s the biggest geospatial event of the year where companies around the world showcase their current innovations for the industry, and the xyHt team was...
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