Category Archives: Aerial/UAS
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...
Not Just Winging It
Path planning algorithms will bolster beyond visual line of sight UAV flights
Quantum Sensing
Profound change could be ahead for airborne reality capture and mapping, in the realm of quantum physics. The term “quantum leap” is often used loosely to describe excitement over new technologies. This time, though, the “quantum” part is literal—specifically, “quantum sensing.” In this case, it is the leveraging of quantum physics, quantum mechanics, particle states,...
Finding and Preserving Lost Black Cemeteries
Finding and Preserving Lost Black Cemeteries - UAVs and ground-penetrating radar are making the work more successful and efficient
Aerial Construction Monitoring Solutions that Require No Pilot
Aerial Construction Monitoring Solutions that Require No Pilot