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xyHt Weekly News Recap: 10/28/22
INTERGEO Celebrates a Successful Comeback Fathom launches new Global Flood Map Innoviz and Kudan Team Up for Lidar-Based Geospatial Mapping Solution Across Industries Cartegraph and Center for Digital Government Share Results of Infrastructure Funding and Technology Survey Leica AP20 AutoPole wins Wichmann Innovations Award at INTERGEO 2022 New Lidar Solution Delivers Survey-Grade Data from UAV...
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Brooks Act
By John Palatiello On this day, October 27, in 1972, President Nixon signed into law legislation providing for qualifications based selection (QBS) of architecture, engineering, (A&E) and related services, including surveying and mapping. It was 50 years ago today the Brooks Act became law. At the time of its enactment, the Brooks Act was a...
Legal Boundaries: Monuments and Corners
Is there a difference between a monument and a corner? Many surveyors use these two terms interchangeably as if they were synonymous. Technically speaking they are not the same, but in many instances a monument will be the physical manifestation of the true corner location. This is the ultimate surveying question, is that monument actually...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 10/21/2022
Teledyne Announces Ladybug6 Cameras for High Accuracy 360-Degree Spherical Image Capture Hexagon and LocLab Work to Accelerate Adoption of Smart Digital Realities Vexcel Imaging Introduces UltraCam Eagle 4.1 Photogrammetric Aerial Camera System Phase One to Launch New Calibration Center at Denver Headquarters Soaring Eagle Technologies Receives Long Distance FAA Waiver for UAS Inspections Common Ground Alliance...
UAS and ALTA Surveys – Part Two
Surveying firms that have been successful in incorporating UAS data in ALTA surveys adopt best practices to ensure precision standards are met. Plan, execute, and check. In Part One of this three-part series in the September xyHt issue, we looked at the time/cost/precision proposition of using UAS for elements of ALTA surveys. Firms interviewed agreed...
It Can Get Uncomfortable Out There
Most field surveyors are pretty tough. This is somewhat contrary to what I had written in a previous article which posed the question, “Are Surveyors Getting Soft These Days?” That can be debated, but I truly believe that my first sentence is true. When the temperature gets above 90 degrees, as it does in many...
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