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Virtual Cities Are Rising
Cutting-edge 3D city models lead the way to better urban planning via digital simulation Take a peek at Helsinki’s virtual 3D city model and what might at first seem to be just rows of solid objects soon reveal themselves as handsome blocks of buildings that line gridiron streets. This is the digital doppelganger of Finland’s...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 08/05/2022
OGC Elects Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse to Board of Directors New Esri Book Showcases the Latest Online GIS Capabilities Ursa Space Systems and EOS Data Analytics Provide Geospatial Insights Across Ukraine NSPS Podcast: A Conversation with the Forest Service 2022 Surveying Education Award Winners Registration Now Open for CONEXPO-CON/AGG Bluesky Reveals Growing Appetite for Geospatial Data...
Embracing the Drone Revolution
Surveyor business models changing in the BVLOS era Over the past few months, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), working with the drone industry, academia, and general aviation membership organizations such as AOPA (www.aopa.org) and NBAA (www.nbaa.org), has been able to advance the cause of uncrewed flights beyond visual line of sight of the operator (BVLOS). ...
xyHt Digital Magazine: August 2022
xyHt’s August issue focuses on location technology, looking at the 20-year history of Global Navigational Satellite Systems and how it has changed the surveying profession and been the catalyst for other geospatial disciplines to emerge. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has...
An Exemplary Real-Time GNSS Network
For more than 20 years, SWEPOS has consistently demonstrated the full potential of real-time GNSS networks Standing in the main control center of Sweden’s real time GNSS network (RTN) system, I feel like I could be standing in NASA Mission Control. A marvel of infrastructure created by Lantmäteriet, the country’s mapping agency, the center has...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/29/2022
Common Ground Alliances Releases Technology Report 2022 Legislation to improve federal land management has legislative hearing National Trig-Star Committee Announces 2022 Excellence Awards Geo Week Announces Supporting Organizations and Media for 2023 Association for Geographic Information Announces GeoCom Speakers New Scanning and Imaging Solution from Trimble Simplifies 3D Deliverables How Geospatial Technology is Vital for Exploring Mars
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