Tag Archives: gps
Rapidly Mapping Infrastructure
Could a Pittsburgh-based start-up help improve (and save) America’s bridges? Early in the morning of January 28, 2022, a Pittsburgh Regional Transit Authority bus crossing the Fern Hollow Bridge began bouncing and shaking for no apparent reason. Moments later it plummeted into a ravine along with several other vehicles as the bridge collapsed beneath them....
Add a Drone to Survey Fieldwork
Innovative drones offer a fast, accurate option for large-area survey data collection Since the first use of drones for commercial purposes in 2006, the drone industry has rapidly gained momentum and introduced new capabilities to serve a wide range of applications. Surveying and mapping projects pose unique challenges due to the importance of accuracy and...
The Cahokia Mounds
The largest single-instrument geophysical survey ever in America hopes to uncover some of the mysteries of the Cahokia Mounds Long, long before any of our great Mississippi River cities, and long before Europeans landed on New World shores and pushed westward, Native Americans were thriving in an urban center so big and so complex it...
Is High-Precision GNSS Coming to Your Smartphone?
We have seen over the past four decades how our traditional profession of making maps went from obscurity to mainstream to widely adopted, everyday reality. When I attended university for my geodesy degree in the early 80s everyone who had a car also had a road map in the glove compartment—from a basic road grid...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 09/16/2022
New Report Assesses Effects of Operating a Terrestrial Radio Network Near GPS Frequency Bands UESI Surveying & Geomatics Conference 2022 Registration for CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE 2023 is Open Airbus, Hiratagakuen to Test Future eVTOL Flight Routes in Kansai Region Hexagon Announces Aerial Data Collection of Eight U.S. States at 6-inch Resolution Susan O’Malley to be...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 08/26/2022
Public Comment Requested on Revision to OGC 3D Streaming Community Standard Commercial geospatial technologies that detect GPS disruptions to be tested in military exercises Senators Urge FCC to Reconsider Order Granting Ligado Applications Civil GPS Service Interface Committee Meeting Set for September 19-20 EuroGeographics welcomes strengthened UN-GGIM Reveal Technology and Teal Drones Demonstrate Multi-Drone Mapping...
