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Mike Hogan, xyHt 2016

Don’t Drone On: Drone Talk & Geospatial Professionals

How to explain the value of UAS to geospatial professionals. I’m the business development director at microdrones, where one of my goals is to help customers–who sell services like aerial mapping, surveying, infrastructure inspection, and monitoring precision agriculture–communicate to their potential clients the value of using UAS. This can be tricky in such a high-tech...

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Rosalie Bartlett: Marketing Manager at Kespry

Women in Unmanned Systems Editor’s Note: In our ongoing effort to promote geospatial professions, we’re asking dynamic leaders what attracted them to UAS and other geospatial fields as well as advice they might have for young people considering choosing related career paths. I’ve been fascinated by flight ever since I was little. If I were...

Leveraging the Land Surveying Role, Part 3

The economics of land surveying Editor’s note: This past May, Ambrose Gmeiner completed his Professional Science Masters Degree from the University of Maine. His final paper, The Land Surveyor as a Project Lead and Providing Professional Testimony, is the source for this series of articles on increasing the skills, strengths, and credentials of the professional...

xyHt News Links: 10/14/16

Delair-Tech Announces Acquisition of Trimble’s US drone company Applanix Announces POSPac MMS 8 Featuring Post-Processed Trimble CenterPoint RTX Service for High-Accuracy Mobile Mapping Brand-new Optech Polaris terrestrial laser scanner launches at INTERGEO 2016 Teledyne Optech unveils the ultra-light Maverick for mobile asset mapping Orbit GT unveils Mobile Mapping Feature Extraction v17 features microdrones™ Offers Full...

Dyan Gibbens, Founder and CEO of Trumbull Unmanned, xyHt 2016

Dyan Gibbens: Founder and CEO of Trumbull Unmanned

Women in Unmanned Systems Editor’s Note: In our ongoing effort to promote geospatial professions, we’re asking dynamic leaders what attracted them to UAS and other geospatial fields as well as advice they might have for young people considering choosing related career paths. From an early age, I knew I would pursue some sort of career...

Surveyors Wanted

Mars Colonization: Mars Needs Surveyors!

Elon Musk’s plan to make us a space-faring and multi-planetary species will provide another planet to survey. Late last month, SpaceX’s founder Elon Musk unveiled his plan to start Mars colonization by 2025. Musk believes passionately that for humankind to survive in the long run, we must become a space-faring and multi-planetary species. Sooner or later,...

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