Tag Archives: Software

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/01/2022

Letitia A. Long to Receive 2022 Lundahl-Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award  Nation’s First Drone-on-Demand Mobile App Now Downloadable on All Devices  Cartegraph Launches Right-of-Way Permitting Solution for Local Governments  Airbus awarded FORUM Earth monitoring satellite contract from ESA  South Korea launches KASS satellite to augment GPS  SUE Association Announces National Conference  Esri to Donate Software for...

Street-Level Lidar On Demand

As exciting as the advent of on-demand access to current, high-resolution lidar is, so are the tools available for ingesting, extracting features, analyzing, and sharing. “What we’re hearing right now, this is really an inflection point for the industry,” says Phil Christensen, vice president for reality and spatial modeling at Bentley Systems. “The software has...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 11/12/2021

Fugro Launches New Generation of Uncrewed Surface Vessels Teledyne Geospatial to Showcase Hardware and Software Solutions at Geo Business 2021 Trimble Establishes Dr. Gladys West Scholarship Program Woolpert Selected to Collect Aerial Lidar Data for Ohio 3DEP Women in Technology Nominations Due by Dec. 31 Bill Introduced to Reform National Flood Insurance Program First American...

Autonomy Comes to UAVs

Trending tech has UAV software looking futuristic To a certain degree, autonomous operations are already baked into the current state of data collection (aka reality capture) software for UAVs. Pre-mission planning consists of using a map-based interface to highlight the area that needs to be mapped or inspected, the appropriate flight pattern and height (AGL)...

Using QGIS in the Cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

It’s easy to run a popular open-source geospatial suite on this hosted cloud platform: AWS. QGIS is a great piece of software, and I would really recommend you try it out if you are currently working with ArcGIS, MapInfo or any other piece of GIS software. However, if you don’t have admin rights on your...