Heights 2025 Archives
Ready, Set, Modernize
The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is modernizing the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) in the United States. The modernization involves significant updates to the official reference frames and vertical datum used across the country, affecting the entire geospatial industry. The ASPRS NSRS Modernization Working Group prepared this article to help prepare the geospatial industry for the upcoming changes.
A Green Light for Shoreline Mapping
Capturing the four distinct elements of shorelines and coastlines often entails using two, three, or more separate systems. Zones of offshore, nearshore, the shoreline, and uplands, captured with separate systems, are stitched together—not always seamlessly. The zones represent a single ecosystem, and the latest approach captures it with one system.
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, and properties to improve foundational geodesy, sensors, systems, and methods.
Fresh Specs That Are Lifting the UAV Game
The latest UAV technologies released in the first quarter of this year seem to be bucking the trend of white-washed main frames and disappearing control buttons commonly seen in the last five years. Instead, the current crop of drones is gaining more advanced robotic payloads, as well as imbibing unconventional shapes that allow for better functions.
Aerial Construction Monitoring Solutions that Require No Pilot
Aerial Construction Monitoring Solutions that Require No Pilot