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xyHt Magazine December 2017 Issue
Click on the cover below to view the December 2017 issue of xyHt magazine. Articles from this issue include: (They appear as links as they go live throughout the month.) 2022 and You (The issue’s editorial) 2022: Monumental Changes, Part 1 The Geodude on the Value of 360° Digital Panoramic Images Maps as Art: The...
Protecting Your Eyesight – at Your Desk
I use special glasses to reduce eye strain in my screen-centric workplace. The geospatial industry has evolved greatly over the last decade, and with the current evolution of our systems this trend shows no sign of slowing down. We are seeing more and more of what has traditionally been considered fieldwork being brought into the...
How to Use the New QGIS 3D
When QGIS revealed that they were going to add a 3D viewer, I was skeptical. Rumors were going around about it being a bolt on functionality and not really being fully adopted. To be perfectly honest, I was put off before there was anything to look at. As screenshots started to appear from Lutra Consulting,...
Whole Lotta Droning Going On: Commercial UAV Expo: Part 2
Continuing with my look at last month’s Commercial UAV Expo, here’s more cool UAV-related gear. Thermal Imaging Drone Parrot is known mostly for being a provider of consumer-level drones (full disclosure, I have three of them). Now they are moving into the commercial market. One example is the Parrot Bebop-Pro Thermal. This quadcopter includes two...
xyHt Weekly News Links: 11/24/17
Topcon Agriculture announces TAP, a connected agriculture ecosystem Trimble’s 3D laser scanning and modeling offers a new way to conduct storage tank inspection in the oil and gas industry Carlson 2018 Precision 3D Topo Geospatial Data Act Save the Date for Feb. 5-7, 2018, Co-Located with ASPRS!
Geospatial Holiday Gift Guide
Here’s what xyHt’s Located contributors want for the holidays and their suggestions for great geospatial gifts. Kevin Lidtka Wants a VR Booth For Christmas I would like a special booth that I can sit in. Inside will be VR glasses and a controller so I can walk or fly around my point clouds or 3D...
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