Tag Archives: gps
The Surveyor and the “Geodesy Crisis”
Surveyor’s Corner By Tim Burch To the average professional surveyor, the term “geodesy” does not exist in their everyday conversations about the business. While the use of state plane coordinates has expanded greatly with the development of GPS/GNSS receivers and RTK/RTN connectivity, the mathematics and “black magic” of geodesy remains an enigma to most of...
xyHt Digital Magazine: November 2024
xyHt magazine’s November 2024 issue focuses on building information modeling, with an in-depth look at the construction industry’s slowness to adopt the evolving technology. 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...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/10/2024
Teledyne FLIR Defense Unveils Rogue 1 Loitering Munition System at SOF Week API Allows Customers to Directly Task World’s Largest SAR Satellite Constellation Registration Open for Commercial UAV Expo Airbus completes acquisition of UAS maker Aerovel Descartes Labs Accelerates Mission-Ready Solutions with EarthDaily Constellation Flight Chaos in NATO Countries Amid GPS Jamming Shift5 introduces GPS...
NOAA’s New Geodetic Datum
Replacing NAD 83 and NAVD 88 have been in the works for a long time; now the change is getting near
The Enduring Technology of Digital Levels – Part One
For nearly three decades, the foundational technology and design of precision levels for surveying has not changed much. It has not had to. Sometimes, when something is done right the best course is to stick with it.
GPS Finds Its Way into the Future
As the pioneering satnav program celebrates half a century of success, it must overcome setbacks to its modernization plans in order to pull off a new era of global PNT leadership