Category Archives: Aerial/UAS

Category Archives: Aerial, UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems), UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), Drones & More

DroneDash and GEODNET Form Joint Venture to Eliminate Pre-Mapping from Precision Agriculture Spraying

DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a Singapore-based joint venture, GEODASH Aerosystems Pte. Ltd., to develop and commercialize a heavy-lift agricultural spraying drone that removes the pre-mapping requirement from large-scale plantation operations. Commercial deployment is targeted for Q3 2026 across oil palm and sugarcane operations in Southeast Asia, with U.S. and South American broad-acre markets...

xyHt Magazine January/February 2026

  Read the Jan/Feb xyHt digital edition. Table of Contents Brave New Coordinates: Working in the Modernized NSRS – Practical guidance for using NATRF2022, NAPGD2022 and SPC2022 to keep everyday projects aligned with the new U.S. reference frames. Fresno State: Building the Next Generation – How Fresno State’s geomatics program is training students on GNSS,...

Penguin Conservationists Use Maps and Satellite Images to Win Landmark Court Case

Penguins split their lives between land and sea, adapting with tenacity to the growing threats they face in both worlds. When those threats become too great, the people working to protect penguins are equally tenacious. Such was the case following a deeply disturbing act of environmental destruction along Argentina’s central coast. A local rancher bulldozed...

The Woodstock of GIS: Inside the Esri UC 2025 Experience

At the San Diego Convention Center in July, thousands of GIS professionals, developers, and geospatial newcomers descended upon the 2025 Esri User Conference, an event one company booth dubbed “the Woodstock of GIS.” It’s an apt comparison: energetic, communal, buzzing with shared ideals and grounded in decades of serious, technical evolution. But unlike Woodstock, the...

xyHt Magazine July/August 2025

Read the July/August 2025 xyHt digital edition. Table of Contents LiDAR for Cattle Farming – Airborne lidar is helping ranchers map rangeland, monitor vegetation and plan water resources.  Partnering for Geospatial Impact (Sponsored Content) – NV5 Geospatial’s integrated lidar, imagery and AI approach is driving smarter decisions across industries.  Having a Ball Doing Layout -One...