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Surveying Beyond the Water’s Edge
A remotely controlled unmanned survey vessel gives a land survey crew full hydrographic abilities for two busy marinas in Oregon. Founded in 2005, Statewide Land Surveying (SWLS) is a small business located in Gresham, Oregon, well acquainted with taking on challenging projects. While mostly engaged in land surveying, SWLS crew members have been involved for over...
Where the Data Comes From
Members of Esri’s Living Atlas unit detail the company’s wide variety of data sources. For nearly 50 years, Esri has been developing and supporting GIS software. What is less known is that for more than 20 years it has also been collecting and curating data and making it available to its users. “It has become...
Weekly xyHt News Links: 06/15/2018
Hexagon Acquires AutonomouStuff, Bolstering its Leadership Position in Autonomous Solutions Topcon releases new edition of MAGNET software suite for optimized workflow New Trimble Basis Software Captures Actual Workspace Utilization to Power Data-Driven Decisions DroneDeploy Releases World’s First Real-Time Thermal Mapping Technology for Commercial Drones Dual-frequency GNSS smartphone hits the market Hexagon Introduces World’s First 3D...
The Future of Autonomous Transport
Geospatial technologies play a pivotal role for the Transport Systems Catapult, the UK’s not-for-profit innovation center for intelligent mobility. The town of Milton Keynes is at the heart of the UK’s transport revolution. It’s home to several tech start-ups and major transport-related brands, such as Network Rail (the UK’s rail authority), Leica Geosystems, Mercedes, VW,...
Precisely Shot
Aerial imaging, GIS, and GNSS play a crucial role in the success of golf’s 2018 U.S. Open Championship. “Basically, we need to construct a small city—every year and in a different location,” said Timothy Lloyd, senior manager of U.S. Open operations at the United States Golf Association (USGA). Lloyd’s team is charged with planning and...
A Student SLAMs Stuttgart
As part of a bachelor’s thesis project, a university student successfully scanned more than 21,000 sq ft of complex office space in just 40 minutes with a mobile 3D laser scanner (the GeoSLAM ZEB-REVO), despite having never previously used the device. The point cloud created from the first-time scanning work was sufficient to generate an...
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