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Glenny Dale (The Old Man), picked his way slowly through the pines, looking down and left and right, trying to remember where the old pipe was. Two Steller’s Jays perched on a pine branch directly above. One of them blended into the deep blue sky, the other into the black pine shadows. Their slightest flicker...
xyHt News Links: 10/16/15
Satlab Geosolutions introduces SLD-100 Hydrographic Echo Sounder for GNSS Rover Merrick Celebrates 60 Years in Business
A Shore Thing
Integrity monitoring the islands of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel involves combining hydrographic survey, lidar, shoreline survey, and terrestrial lidar survey. Rigorous structural integrity monitoring to extend the lifespan of critical infrastructure is an economic necessity. Remote sensing and integrated remote sensing provide new ways to monitor all elements of a structure in fine detail....
xyHt News Links: 10/9/15
Orbit GT to showcase new UAS Mapping product at UAS Expo, Las Vegas Topcon announces rotary-wing UAS Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz to Unveil Restored Mason-Dixon Instrument Denver, FAA Partner on Drone Safety LizardTech Publishes Industry Survey Results on Raster Imagery and LiDAR Data Challenges Inuitive announces NU3000 based reference design for Project Tango
Recreating the Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps with Open Data
The holy grail for many (UK) map users is the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale “Explorer” map. Not only are they easy to read due to the fantastic cartography used, but they also have information which is hard to source such as public rights of way, National Trust & Woodland Trust sites, even wind farms. To...
We Are Aviators First
With UAS, surveyors are becoming aviators. As we adopt new technology, we should heed old advice. I flew my first photogrammetric mission in the early 1980s while I was completing my geodesy degree during tumultuous times at my alma mater. While the rest of the world had disco fever, students at Universidad Central de Venezuela...
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