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The Challenge of Channeling Water

From the Romans to the Everglades, the art of directing water flow has never been easy For thousands of years impromptu land surveyors tried, sometimes successfully, to force water to flow in a direction it did not want to go. This was done to help grow crops in areas where water was not abundant enough...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/08/2022

Phase One and Trimble Announce Collaboration to Streamline High Quality Photogrammetric Workflow Commercial UAV Expo Announces Keynote Lineup for 2022 Event Lidar Data Helps Prioritize Flood Risk, Speed Recovery at Yellowstone NextTech: Tracing Relationships through the Supply Chain Letitia A. Long to Receive 2022 Lundahl-Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award Dominion Energy Secures Pivotal BVLOS Waiver for...

Surveyor’s Corner: Women in Surveying

The future for women in surveying is getting brighter all the time History tells us the journey for female surveyors began with Alice Fletcher in the late 1800s. Fletcher was a social scientist who tried to integrate Native Americans into the European culture spreading across America.   After learning that Native Americans feared being banished to...

Repositioning GIS

The technology that will drive the next era Esri calls GIS the nervous system of the planet, a platform relevant to almost every human endeavor. It’s a way to display, manipulate, and analyze geospatial data—and that ability is ever changing and expanding across industries.   GIS technology allows us to derive location intelligence from spatial and...

xyHt Digital Magazine: July 2022

xyHt’s July issue focuses on Geographic Information systems, looking at how GIS helps surveyors improve accuracy and how GIS is the technology for the next era. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/01/2022

Letitia A. Long to Receive 2022 Lundahl-Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award  Nation’s First Drone-on-Demand Mobile App Now Downloadable on All Devices  Cartegraph Launches Right-of-Way Permitting Solution for Local Governments  Airbus awarded FORUM Earth monitoring satellite contract from ESA  South Korea launches KASS satellite to augment GPS  SUE Association Announces National Conference  Esri to Donate Software for...

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