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Mariana Vilela
24 Young Geospatial Professionals to Watch in 2024 Company: GeoMax PositioningCurrent Position: Technical support for US, Canada & LATAMAge: 29Education: Associate degree in psychology; currently working on a bachelor’s degree in land surveying Born in Brazil and fluent in three languages, Vilela brings a global perspective to her work. She manages technical support, dealer, and...
Sponsored Content: How Navigation Systems are Guiding the UAV LiDAR Revolution
Introducing UAV LiDAR When the idea of integrating LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology into unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) first emerged, it sparked a new paradigm for both technologies. Suddenly, UAV operators not only gained a bird’s eye perspective of the land their aircraft flew over but also the ability to simultaneously generate 3D...
Sponsored Content: Revolutionizing Wide-Area Mapping
Phase One, a pioneer in medium- and large-format digital cameras and imaging systems introduced its latest innovation, PAS Pana at last week’s InterGeo in Berlin. PAS Pana revolutionizes country-wide area mapping providing unmatched performance and precision. “With its large swath of 48,800 pixels you can now capture a maximum area in minimal time. Data collection...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 11/17/2023
Insights into Lidar Technology and Lidar-Based Surveying Esri Introduces ArcGIS Video Server, Brings New Video Capabilities to Users EU fine-tunes plan to launch Galileo satellites on SpaceX Elevating Belgium’s Railways with Topcon Positioning Systems Esri Integrates with Microsoft Fabric to Deliver Leading Spatial Analytics Capabilities Esri and National Geographic Society Launch National Geographic MapMaker
What’s Inside Your GNSS Rover? Part 3
The third and final installment of a look at the inner workings of high-precision surveying rovers. In parts one and two, which appeared in the two previous issues, we focused on antennas, amplification, housing, channels, boards, and gates. This installment continues with signal matching, positioning engines, and additional components. Matching Signals To distill the observed...
What AI Can Do for GIS
Part 2 By Juan B. Plaza and Giulio Maffini Before we can even attempt to describe what AI can do for GIS, we need to understand what a GIS is and how it is used. What do these three letters mean? A pretty good definition is: A geographic information system consists of integrated computer hardware...
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