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xyHt Magazine July 2016 Issue
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Trolling: Always Get Independent Advice & Avoid the #geotroll
Ever since I started tweeting and blogging, I’ve received messages about using certain software, or how expensive a software is, or sometimes threats over my choice of software. It falls on deaf ears; I am independent. ANY geospatial software, no matter cost or design, is worth considering to some respect. Sure, some may meet your...
Space Engineering in Training
Above: Morgan Ré aided engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center as they prepared for a series of nine drop tests of an Orion crew capsule model. Credit: NASA Think young people aren’t getting enough hands-on experience with geospatial looks and skills? Check out this high-schooler. Last summer, NASA dropped three small airplanes from 100 feet in...
xyHt News Links: 6/24/16
Control Point Acquires Stantec Tri-State Survey & Photogrammetry Group GENEQ Announces New RTK App for iOS named iSXBlue RTN FAA: Commercial drone use to take flight Summit Outlines Steps for a National Parcel System Hemisphere GNSS Announces New Eclipse Positioning OEM Boards Airbus Defense and Space and 3v Geomatics Partner for TerraSARX Imagery Acquisition Program...
Measured Responses
The NSPS questionnaire yields constructive feedback. This column provides monthly coverage of a national initiative: Forum on the Future of Surveying (FFOS). See the first installment in our March issue. The National Society of Professional Surveyors released a short, online questionnaire in April to gather feedback in advance of the second meeting of the national...
Part 107 Goes Live: UAS Unchained (Mostly)
The FAA said that it would have its Small Unmanned Aircraft Regulations ready by this summer, and by the second day of summer, it did. Rule 107 takes effect in late August and applies to unmanned aircraft (UAS) weighing less than 55 pounds that are conducting commercial operations. Let’s take a quick look at the...
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