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Weekly xyHt News Links: 08/31/2018
Hexagon Partners with Clevest to Improve Utility Field Operations Topcon announces acquisition of ThunderBuild Topcon introduces new software for UAV inspection applications Trimble Launches New Model of its R10 GNSS System for Land Surveyors The Spry: The First Waterproof Drone That Submerges, Floats Like a Boat, and Flies in the Air Geneq Inc. Announces F90...
Got GPS? Thank Hedy Lamarr
I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right. Hedy Lamarr, the gorgeous and glamorous Hollywood star of the ‘30s and ‘40s, had nothing to do with the invention of GPS. She did, however, invent a technology that underpins almost all modern communications. Lamarr and avant-garde composer George Antheil invented and patented a technology that Bluetooth,...
Weekly xyHt News Links: 08/24/2018
DJI Introduces Mavic 2 Pro And Mavic 2 Zoom: A New Era For Camera Drones Laser Technology, Inc. Announces a New and Improved TruPulse 360 Laser Rangefinder with TruVector Compass Technology DroneDeploy Releases Intelligent Cloud Photogrammetry Leica Announces the M10-P Full-frame Digital Rangefinder Camera NovAtel launches TerraStar-C PRO correction service Dstillery Launches Dscover Maps, Providing...
Weekly xyHt News Links: 08/17/2018
IrisVR Brings VR to Construction Industry with First Ever Navisworks Integration to Support BIM New Geospatial Intelligence Monitoring and Analytics Platform Delivers Superior Forestry Risk and Operational Management Blippar Launches Indoor Visual Positioning System for Enhanced Location-Based Augmented Reality
What Can Spatial IT Do for You?
Helping firms meet the challenges of the global uptick in infrastructure development. Editor’s note: What is spatial IT? This umbrella term for the spatial component of the new wave of digital wizardry that’s transforming our geospatial and geomatics professions and industries can seem nebulous. xyHt has adopted the following working definition (as the term applies...
Drones over Venus
While attending the AUVSI XPONENTIAL conference last May, I spoke with the team at Black Swift Technologies, a Boulder, Colorado-based UAS engineering firm specializing in scientific platforms, and I asked them to keep me updated with their progress. I recently received the news that it has been awarded a NASA contract to develop a UAS...
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