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xyHt News Links: 12/9/16
Topcon announces next generation of online support and training Septentrio announces seismic monitoring and advanced CORS features on PolaRx5 product line. Asteri Navigation launches X-series of wearable GNSS receivers
Custom, Portable Maps — Via App!
Software company Avenza has evolved its map products into an app that lets people upload their own map—or download a map of their choice—to their mobile devices, and customize it. Whether for fighting a wildland fire, delivering packages, or exploring tourist sites, using a map should be easy and quick. Well, especially when you’re fighting...
Single-Photon Lidar
SPL collects massive data from the air, uses less power, and can see through semi-porous objects with green lasers. Technological advances in our industry have truly been a sight to behold. It seems like when you blink, already there’s a faster, smaller version of the instrument you just bought. Look at aerial lidar, for instance–who...
Who Is a Professional Land Surveyor?
A few months ago I wrote a piece titled, “What is a Professional Land Surveyor?” Now I will take a crack at “Who is a professional land surveyor?” I started in this business when I was 17, not even graduated high school yet. I was a hot shot architectural draftsman in high school, or so...
Right-sized? Taking the Surveying Profession to the Future
Verb -Gerund or present participle: right-sizing. As in reducing the size of (a company or organization) by eliminating staff positions, specifically when business conditions necessitate such a reduction Editor’s note: We asked esteemed Nevada surveyor and editor of the Nevada Traverse (journal of land surveying in Nevada) Carl C. de Baca to weigh in on...
xyHt News Links: 12/2/16
Cadastral Boundaries from Point Clouds? Robotic Riverbed Survey Vessel Tracked with FOCUS 35 Total Station SimActive Enables Processing in the Cloud TerraGo Joins Trimble Developer Partner Program and Includes Trimble GNSS Direct SDK in Mobile Products Serious Gaming for Facility Management 11th Annual UAS Summit & Expo to take place in Grand Forks Boundless introduces...
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