Category Archives: Aerial/UAS
xyHt and FARO Nov. 4 Webinar on Hybrid Scanning Workflows for Roadway Surveys
xyHt will host a live webinar with FARO on Wednesday, November 4, at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT), examining how hybrid scanning workflows are changing the way surveyors capture, process and deliver geospatial data. The session, titled “Building Better with Hybrid Scanner Workflows,” is free to attend with registration. Register Here to Reserve Your...
Digital Twins Are a Journey, Not a Product
Esri’s Technology Director for AEC spent roughly three decades on the industry side, most of it at Arcadis, before joining Esri to work the problem from the platform side. His case for digital twins starts with the mix of expertise required inside an AEC firm and ends with a flood-control system in South Florida he...
Reality Capture Is Becoming the New Mapping Process
Esri’s CTO of Digital Twins spent years building the photogrammetry engine underneath ArcGIS Reality before Esri acquired his company outright. A conversation after this year’s User Conference covers what changed when Gaussian splatting arrived, why survey-grade accuracy still matters in an AI-driven capture environment, and what a working geospatial digital twin actually looks like in...
Field Report From Concordia: Inside Topcon’s PNT Field of Dreams
A first-person visit to Topcon’s Concordia Training Center near Modena, Italy, reveals a purpose-built center of excellence where place, precision and trust come together. Near Modena, in northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, it is impossible to separate technology from place. This is Italy’s high-performance automotive heartland, home to Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Bugatti and Pagani — some...
GEO-MEASURE: Bringing Precision to the Ground
GEO-MEASURE is a compact RTK receiver, but its significance may lie less in what it replaces than in what it enables. From a professional surveyor’s control network to a software engineer’s avocado farm in Japan, the device illustrates how lower-cost, easier-to-use positioning tools are narrowing the distance between the physical world and the digital systems...
Esri User Conference 2026: What the Sessions Add Up To
More than fifteen thousand people filled the San Diego Convention Center for Esri’s 46th annual User Conference this year, with roughly that many more watching by livestream from 117 countries. Taken session by session, the program is a wide survey of a mapping platform still expanding in every direction. Taken together, it resolves into a...