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What Is a Professional Land Surveyor?
As I was recently completing the comprehensive NSPS questionnaire developed as a follow-up to the Forum on the Future of Surveying (see Multiple Choices by Gavin Schrock, PLS), I found myself contemplating the many descriptions of land surveyors included along the way. After completing the questionnaire and providing some personal feedback, I couldn’t help but...
Closer Than It Looks
Above: High-definition mapping sensors (lidar, digital, and oblique imagery, here mounted on a helicopter during collection of an autonomous vehicle mapping project) provide an accurate, cost-effective approach to limit the interference and potential delays related to collecting extensive control on a right of way. A hybrid of geospatial technologies could help autonomous vehicle mapping drive...
UAS — Don’t Blink
The audible signature of drones is readily recognizable. With the flood of consumer drones, the distinctive whir of those little propellers fills our skies and thoughts. But there is another sound associated with drones and their commercial manifestation in the form of UAVs and UAS that might someday soon be cause for alarm: the “whoosh”...
xyHt Magazine May 2016 Issue
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xyHt Industry News Links: 4/29/16
Tallysman® Introduces High Performance Triple Band GNSS Antenna + L-Band Trimble Launches End-to-End Field Service Management Suite DJI Introduces Next-Generation Matrice 600 Aerial Platform NovAtel launches 40-centimeter correction service, TerraStar-L The Digit Group and CyberCity 3D Ink Development, Sales and Marketing Agreement Using Streaming 3D Maps for Smart Cities IoT Solutions MIT Develops Control Algorithm...
The Merging Trend in Aerial Mapping
My take on company consolidation in the aerial mapping industry. The old saying—that history repeats itself—seems to be as true as ever in the photogrammetric mapping industry. Twenty years ago, an investment group began acquiring aerial mapping companies with the goal to amass a powerhouse that would dominate the industry. I call this the battleship...
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