xyHt’s October issue focuses on data acquisition, whether from GNSS, your smartphone or the increasingly available satellite data that is being made on the Internet for free.

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 edition. Click here or on the cover to the right, to view the October 2022 issue of xyHt magazine; or better yet, click here to have us send you a free copy of the print issue.

Here are some highlights:

Free Mapping Data: Reliable geospatial data used to be hard to find—and expensive. But thanks to the profusion of online data repositories, they’re now at our fingertips for free.

Is High-Precision GNSS Coming to Your Phone: An interesting development on the horizon may turn your smartphone into a real precision surveying tool, therefore adding another layer of ‘democratization’ to an already diluted profession.

The Ocean Mapping Imperative: Wind and solar-powered uncrewed surface vehicles offer a boost to our effort to map the entire ocean floor by 2030.

UAS and ALTA Surveys—Part 2: Surveying firms that have been successful in incorporating UAS data in ALTA surveys adopt best practices to ensure precision standards are met.