Tag Archives: drones
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 10/06/2023
Topcon expands construction layout portfolio with LN-50 Cadcorp launches new EPC Data Service New Davis-Bacon Act Rules Go Into Effect Oct. 23 Esri and NSPS | Surveyors and GIS Webinar Series German campaign aims to get youngsters excited about mapping and surveying Drones Receive EASA’s C6 Certificate for BVLOS Flights in the European Union ...
The Next Big Thing
A string of high-profile bridge failures in recent years has underscored the importance of innovating the way we inspect and assess the condition of our vital civil infrastructure. Can the use of AI help prevent bridge collapses in the future? This award-winning engineer thinks so. The period spanning 1992 to 2014 could just be the...
AI in the Sky
Will artificial intelligence solve the beyond visual line of sight problem for uncrewed aerial vehicles? For more than a decade now we have been moving more and more processes and tasks from crewed aviation to drones in a variety of industries, but the promise of widespread massive deployment of these electrically powered wonders is still...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/14/23
Bluesky’s Airborne Sensors Help Developers Protect Wildlife Habitats New Trimble Terra Office Workflow Delivers Integration with Esri ArcGIS Pro USGIF Announces Six New Board Members For 2023-2024 Topcon Introduces Aptix Integration Platform for Heavy Civil Construction Penn State Win Topographic Mapping at National Surveying Championship Tallest Mountain in Idaho is Higher Than Thought Registration Open...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/02/23
Seabed 2030 and NORBIT Oceans to Accelerate Global Ocean Mapping Phase One Launches iXM-SP150 Space-Hardened Camera at GEOINT CartoVista Unveils Latest in GIS Web Mapping Platforms USGIF Announces Three New Scholarships Sponsored by St. Louis Organizations NOAA Hires Woolpert for Hydrographic Survey, Bathymetric Data in Nome, Alaska Commercial Drone Alliance and Commercial UAV Expo Announce...
A Decade of Uncrewed Photogrammetry
Some might have had a peek at photogrammetry drones before 2013, but for me 2023 marks a decade since I first laid eyes on an uncrewed aircraft that “claimed” to do what I had been doing for years in bigger, more stable airplanes in the joyful company of pilots, copilots, camera operators, and navigators. In...