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Tech Feats for a X-Country Course
A 3D data company created a photo-realistic cross-country-course simulation using mobile mapping, with more innovation to come. When the best collegiate runners take their marks at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Wisconsin next year, the course will be as familiar as their favorite training routes. Above: Plans are underway to create treadmill routines that match the...
xyHt Weekly News Links: 9/22/17
Phase One Industrial Introduces 190MP Aerial System Orbit GT to showcase new v18 for Mobile, UAS, Indoor and Aerial Mapping at Intergeo, Berlin Hosting massive geodata made easier by new cloud solution LizardTech Awarded U.S. Patent for LiDAR Point Cloud Compression senseFly to launch industry-specific solutions at INTERGEO 2017 Measure’s First Drone Services Franchise Opens...
The GeoDude on Scanning Efficiency
A Snapshot from the GeoDude on Rich Data Here’s a comparison of today’s field and office efficiencies—for conventional surveying methods versus laser scanning—as applied to topographic and site surveys. Above: The firm that used scanning for this site survey noted that more than 60% of these types of projects entail scope creep; scanning typically avoids go-backs....
Topcon Positioning System’s Ray O’Connor on Infrastructure
Topcon Positioning System’s president and CEO, Ray O’Connor, speaks to xyHt about the U.S.’s infrastructure needs and how to meet them. Ray O’Connor, president and CEO of Topcon Positioning Systems, has many passions: producing advanced measurement and automation equipment and software, family, golf, and the subject of infrastructure—more specifically, the lack of long-term infrastructure planning. Putting...
xyHt Weekly News Links: 9/15/17
Tallysman introduces new high-gain GNSS antennas Taoglas launches comprehensive range of high-precision GNSS antennas NICB Makes Aerial Imagery from Harvey and Irma Available to Public Hazard and Evacuation Map Now Available for Hurricane Irma Affected Areas Drone swarm management software UgCS DDC enriched with ArtNET
Smallsat Constellations: Sats that Fly in Formation
New applications for smallsat constellations are growing from autonomous formation flying. Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) of Toronto is on a mission to expand the utility of small satellites in a variety of commercial, government, and research sectors. Among its current focus areas is exploit- ing its successful heritage in autonomous formation flying, a technology that...
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