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xyHt Weekly News Links: 12/8/17
Bentley Systems Announces Agreement to Acquire ACTION Modulers’ Water Modeling Software Business International LiDAR Mapping Forum 2018 Conference Program Announced & Registration Open Texas Society of Professional Surveyors Recognizes Leading Land Surveyor: Doug Turner, IDS Survey Director, Named Surveyor of the Year Android software release expands GNSS analysis tool capabilities US, China cooperate on interoperability...
The Pacific Northwest
Maps as Art These earth-toned watercolors reflect the greens, browns, yellows, and blues of the verdant Pacific Northwest. I spent hours comparing source material and drawing and re-drawing this map, so I have a new depth of admiration for the mapmakers of old who pioneered this exacting business. I begin every map with a 1″...
A Silver Survey in My Golden Years
This summer I had the joy of experiencing the best boundary retracement “job” of my 40-year surveying career, and it came about quite by accident. For most of my life I’ve had the privilege of visiting a cabin on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains owned by the family of a childhood friend....
2022: Monumental Changes, Part 1
The National Geodetic Survey of the U.S. responds to surveyors’ questions on how legacy physical geodetic monuments will be affected by the planned 2022 reference framework modernization. Editor’s note: A recent article in xyHt’s online newsletter, Field Notes, prompted a discussion among surveyors on the pending 2022 modernization of the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) for...
2022 and You
The year 2022 …. “And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run; you missed the starting gun.” —Time, by Pink Floyd (Gilmour, Wright) The year of the planned update of the U.S. national spatial reference system, 2022, looms large on the horizon and is...
xyHt Weekly News Links: 12/1/17
Hemisphere GNSS debuts scalable smart antenna Orbit GT releases 3D Mapping Publisher v18 3D Laser Mapping launches campaign to release open-source LiDAR data SimActive Introduces New Technology for True Orthos Marine-i Event creates an exciting vision of the future Applanix and Think 3D Deliver UAV Lidar Mapping with Direct Georeferencing GIS Tools in EDU PR...
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