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xyHt News Links: 9/16/16
Septentrio Launches New GNSS Receiver for Time and Frequency transfer applications Leica Geosystems launches HDS University Teledyne Optech Press Release: Solutions for wide-area mapping and infrastructure/mine surveys at Geomatics Indaba 2016 Topcon announces enhancements to UAS packages Orbit GT and AAM Group, Australia, join forces to open new horizons in the Mobile Mapping Market Announcing...
Those Magnificent Men with Their Flying Machines: UAV Data Today
A UAV firm provides surveyors and engineers with CAD-ready files, saving their clients’ resources while increasing accuracy. In case you don’t recognize the title here, it’s a reference to the British comedy film from 1965 based on a competition to fly from London to Paris the fastest. Many of our magnificent men—and women—these days are...
Advice for the Young Surveyor
A conversation with Muried Alvin (Al) Pepling, PLS From FN editor Scott P. Martin: Al’s advice and insight contains much wisdom that can be applied to almost any professional career, but especially ours. Reading this caused me to recollect on writing “What is a Professional Land Surveyor?” and “Mentoring: A Two Way Street.” To succeed,...
Leveraging the Land Surveyor’s Roles, Part 1
Planner and Project Manager I Editor’s note: This past May, Ambrose Gmeiner completed his Professional Science Masters Degree from the University of Maine and was inducted into the Francis Crowe Society at the university’s College of Engineering. His final paper, “The Land Surveyor as a Project Lead and Providing Professional Testimony,” is the source for this...
Layla Gordon, Ordnance Survey Technology Laboratory Engineer
What is the Ordnance Survey Technology Laboratory? I managed to get an interview with one of the UK’s national mapping agency’s engineers, Layla Gordon, who has been working on some interesting geospatial tech. ND: How did your education lead you to OS (Ordnance Survey) and geospatial? LG: Back in 1994 I was doing a degree...
xyHt News Links: 9/9/16
FireFLY6 PRO Now Shipping! Sokkia introduces lighter and faster line of robotic total stations Septentrio’s Altus NR2 GNSS Receiver is Now Offered by Esri Satlab Geosolutions introduces SLX-1 Multi-application CORS GNSS Receiver [Webinar] The Latest Construction Site Land Surveying Practices Phase One Industrial Innovates Four Band Aerial Imaging Phase One Industrial Launches iXU-RS Aerial Camera...
