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Weekly xyHt News Links: 10/5/2018
Microdrones Goes Big with Release of mdLiDAR3000, as well as Two New mdMapper Systems Trimble Introduces Next Generation Wireless Data Recorder for Smart Wastewater and Stormwater Monitoring Skyfish Unveils UAV Industry’s First On-board Computing Module, Navigation and Sensor Platform for Commercial Drones Juniper Systems Unveils New Cedar CP3 Rugged Smartphone Ainstein Announces New...
After the Storm
Above image: Puerto Rico was surveyed using the Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar system to provide efficient damage assessment. Image courtesy of the Joint Airborne Technical Center of Expertise. Post-hurricane coastal mapping is a complex process made easier with airborne bathymetry. Lately, large storms such as hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons have been wreaking havoc...
Close Enough for Government Work
Image above: High-tension measurement: Credit NOAA National Geodetic Survey. We have all heard it, most likely have even said it. I have. And we probably meant it as a negative, implying sloppy work. However, researching the origin of the saying revealed that it was born during World War II and meant excellence, as in: if...
Microdrones Goes Big
Microdrones Goes Big with Release of mdLiDAR3000, as well as Two New mdMapper Systems Las Vegas, Nevada- Announced today at the Commercial UAV Expo was the launch of the new mdLiDAR3000. It’s the newest LiDAR system from Microdrones that combines the heavy lifting power of the md4-3000 drone with a RIEGL LiDAR and a SONY...
xyHt Magazine October 2018 Issue
Click on the cover below to view the October 2018 issue of xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include (links will turn live throughout October): The Power of Light – xyHt visits Nikon’s optical surveying instrument production facility. After the Storm – Post-hurricane coastal mapping is a complex process made easier with airborne bathymetry. History, Art, Community –...
The Power of Light
xyHt visits Nikon’s optical surveying instrument production facility. [Photo above: Mika Takeda, inspector at the Nikon-Trimble Zao Operation Center, demonstrates the light weight of the compact instruments Nikon is renowned for manufacturing. In the background: environmental chambers to temper and test components and instruments.] A massive stone table sits in an environmentally controlled room in...
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