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Tracking Aircraft in Flight

From surveillance methods using ground-based radar to space-based systems, it’s more complex to track aircraft than you might think. The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, was both tragic and stunning. The loss of a modern commercial aircraft operating in government-controlled airspace, which remains unexplained, represents...

xyHt news Links: 3/6/15

Berntsen / Google Trusted Store Press Release Trimble Launches VRS Now Service in Oregon United Nations General Assembly Adopts First Geospatial Resolution GIS in the Rockies 2015. Registration Open. ISRO to Launch Fourth Navigation Satellite March 9 Colourcloud Set to Transform Laser Scans with Fast Point Cloud Colourisation Overlay

xyHt News Links: 04/17/15

Beginning Slate of Flyers Announced for ASPRS UAS Mapping 2015 Reno Symposium  iXBlue Launches the Fifth-Generation OCTANS, Company’s Trusted Reference in Sea Navigation  The Next Generation of Reality Computing Technology is Here DARPA Ocean Drone Would Lift ‘Upward Falling Payloads’ DJI Unveils Phantom 3 UAV with Indoor Positioning NovAtel Offers Relay RTK Radio Module for GNSS Receiver 

RFID tags take many forms. The inside of a tag shown above— designed to attach to metal infrastructure in harsh environments, such as water pipes and valves—has a thin copper “bow-tie” antenna with a minuscule chip in the middle. It’s shown contrasted with a grain of rice.

RFID

Above: RFID tags take many forms. The inside of a tag shown above—designed to attach to metal infrastructure in harsh environments, such as water pipes and valves—has a thin copper “bow-tie” antenna with a minuscule chip in the middle. It’s shown contrasted with a grain of rice. An electronic handshake has brought together the worlds...

Maptime co-founder Alan McConchie (back, left) teaches Tilemill 1 and 2 at a Maptime meetup at Stamen’s offices in 2014. Credit: Christie Hemms.

Maptime

A new source of support for mapmakers is spreading internationally. With so many sectors and niches, the spatial/IT industry was falling into silos. Then, seemingly from out of nowhere groups started appearing, first in the United States and then in Europe, under the label “Maptime,” in a similar fashion to the hackathons a decade ago. ...

xyHt News Links: 4/10/15

Teledyne Marine releases new 64bit software version of “Teledyne PDS Hexagon Imagery Program releases new airborne imagery content DigitalGlobe Makes Available 30-cm Satellite Imagery to Customers U.S. Senators Introduce Bipartisan Geospatial Data Act Septentrio launches its newest product, the AsteRx4 OEM  Teledyne Odom Hydrographic introduces the fully integrated MB2 Multibeam Echosounder for fast mobilization on...

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