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Surveying: It’s a Wonder
Sponsored by NCEES Get your end-of-year credits. Click here to learn more. Surveying is a fascinating and wonderful profession–just think about the great things that we have the opportunity to accomplish from day-to-day. We may create a new tract of land through subdivision which allows a young person to have a new home on their...
A Happy Loneliness
Finding My Boundaries As a college freshman, my American lit professor assigned the class to read Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I was excited about the assignment, largely because I had already read the book and enjoyed it so, figured I could cruise through this section of the class while others struggled to comprehend Thoreau’s...
xyHt Weekly News Links: 11/18/2022
Hexagon’s Leica BLK2FLY named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2022 Earth Sciences Foundation Giving Tuesday is November 29 Axians France Enters into Partnership with Pix4D Resolution Introduced in Congress to Recognize National GIS Day NSPS Lobbyist Named Top in the Profession Voters in 18 States Approve Transportation Investment Measurers FCC Releases New Broadband Maps...
UAS and ALTA Surveys
Part 3 Precision, accuracy, and completeness are the end goals of UAS post processing, but how you get there to meet ALTA standards requires extra care. In Parts One and Two of this article in the September and October 2022 issues of xyHt we looked at the time/cost/precision proposition of using UAS for elements of...
New Digital World Needs Data
Next-generation surveyors require specialized education and training to fill the role of geospatial data specialists. Many emerging geospatial applications, such as digital twins, 3D modeling, monitoring, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles, are based on big digital datasets. Building a 3D digital world starts with accurate data that ties to a point on the ground, so...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 11/11/22
Former NGA Director Robert Sharp Joins UMSL Geospatial Collaborative Registration Open for 2023 Common Ground Alliance Expo Sneak Peak at GeoWeek AI Improves the Location of Objects Inside Industrial Environments RIEGL announces NEW VZ-600i
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