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xyHt Weekly News Links: 6/9/17
Trimble RTX Corrections Gets Boost in Performance from the Galileo Constellation ANSI establishes UAS standardization collaborative Sokkia introduces simplicity in field-to-office software NIAS and NASA test the Next Phase of NASA’s UAS Traffic Management System
The Hydrous: Mapping Vanishing Reefs
Using geospatial technologies, The Hydrous provides “open access” to oceans in an attempt to save critical habitats. The oceans of the world are vital to our survival. While monitoring their health is the realm of scientists and protecting their health is the responsibility of everyone, few of us truly experience the richness of these aquatic...
Mapping the 1874 Yavapai-Apache Exodus Trail
Modern hikers map the Exodus Trail of the Yavapai-Apache Nation with GPS. By Everett Phillips, Philipp Hummel, PLS, and Bryan Frazier; introduction by Judie Piner In 1875, both the Yavapai and the Apache people were removed from their Rio Verde reservation in Arizona and force-marched by U.S. soldiers in terrible conditions, nearly 200 miles, to...
The Young Surveyors on the Young Surveyors Network
Note from Editor Scott P. Martin: As I read and absorbed the Young Surveyors Network response (below) to last month’s Field Notes, I realized that I have been ignorant of the perception and perspective young surveyors have of our profession and the old guard. We have contributed greatly to our own demise (I touched on...
xyHt Weekly News Links: 6/2/17
Delair-Tech and NIAS have reached an agreement to perform a series of test flights Orbit GT – Orbit GT and x-Spatial, USA, sign Reseller Agreement Allmand Bros. Inc. Expands into the Mobile Generator Market Appeals Court Strikes Down FAA Registry of Recreational Drones on NBCNews.com Announcing a Drone Designed to Assess and Detect Risks in...
Launch of INTERGEO 2017: Topics that get the geo-IT sector noticed
Berlin, 16 May 2017 3, 2, 1 and lift-off. The 2017 INTERGEO season is underway, with a programme fully reflecting its long-standing key focus – “Knowledge and action for planet Earth”. Once again in 2017, the leading international trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management’s hot topics will highlight ground-breaking developments and projects of...