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A Surveyor’s Thoughts on the QBS Process Editor’s Note: This month’s installment of Field Notes was submitted by James Nicolau IV, PLS, on the merits of using the quality-based selection (QBS) process to select surveyors for construction-staking services beyond where it is required under the Brooks Act (Public Law 95-582). When the QBS process is...
GEOID18: Make Your Mark and Improve Your Heights
As a community, we have the unique opportunity to contribute to the densification and improvement of our national geoid model and vertical transformation tools in support of the ongoing modernization of the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). While the geoid model is a national level product, the impacts of this work are directly felt within...
Mexico City’s Transportation Revolution
Using drones, lidar, and BIM, enterprising surveyors and geospatial engineers designed and constructed the city’s first high-speed train system. Editor’s Note: Lessons learned from a problematic rail project in Mexico City prompted an initiative to pull out all technological stops for a subsequent new rail line. An innovative, tech-savvy firm that had demonstrated its capabilities...
xyHt Magazine April 2018 Issue
Click on the cover below to view the April 2018 issue of xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include (links will turn live throughout April): GEOID18 – Make your mark and improve your heights. BigSUR – A software team creates a large-scale, structured, urban reconstruction system that handles multiple data sources with deep learning. Law & Order – The...
xyHt Magazine Heights 2018 Issue
Click on the cover below to view the Heights 2018 issue of xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include (links will turn live throughout April): Powerline Inspection – Recommendations for those debating whether to complete their next project by drone, ground or helicopter. Aerial Imagery to the Rescue – Events in 2017 demonstrated without any...
Weekly xyHt News Links: 3/30/2018
EdgeTech Introduces the 6205s Next Generation Swath Bathymetry & Side Scan Sonar System senseFly takes drone flight planning & management to next level with release of eMotion 3.5 CANSEL TO DISTRIBUTE MICRODRONES FULLY INTEGRATED DRONE SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT CANADA NASA completes third phase of UAS airspace testing Intergeo 2018 to focus on geoinformation, digitalization SBG Systems...
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