Tag Archives: mapping

xyHt Magazine July/August 2025

Read the July/August 2025 xyHt digital edition. Table of Contents LiDAR for Cattle Farming – Airborne lidar is helping ranchers map rangeland, monitor vegetation and plan water resources.  Partnering for Geospatial Impact (Sponsored Content) – NV5 Geospatial’s integrated lidar, imagery and AI approach is driving smarter decisions across industries.  Having a Ball Doing Layout -One...

A Conversation With Spatial Storyteller, Pete Kelsey

Geospatial storytelling, geo-evangelism, and how to build the ultimate reality capture kit. By Pete Kelsey and Gavin Schrock, PLS The geospatial sector has a bona fide “geo celebrity”, and that distinction is well deserved. Pete Kelsey has been out there in the geo trenches with the rest of us for decades. Beginning with military service,...

Hijacking Cartography

Maps as Art Artist Ed Fairburn loves collecting all sorts of antique ephemera, but he has a particular soft spot for maps, which he uses as a canvas to express his art. For example, in this ink work over a map of Brooklyn (based on Cram’s 1894 Universal Atlas), Fairburn draws a human face along...

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.

xyHt Digital Magazine: May/June 2025

xyHt magazine’s combined May and June issue focuses on aerial surveying and mapping and takes an in-depth look at topics from tropical glaciers to government advocacy. 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...