Tag Archives: surveying

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 09/15/2023

Cadcorp Supports Customers in Gaining Deeper Insight from Data  Aaron Addison Takes Over as Executive Director of WGIC  Commercial UAV Expo 2023 Reports Largest Exhibit Hall and Attendee Growth  ASPRS Approves Edition 2 of the ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standards  Register for Trimble Dimensions NSPS Certified Sessions  China Finishing High-precision Ground-based Timing System  EuroGeographics Calls for...

Testifying as an Expert 

Legal Boundaries A boundary dispute case, or any case involving surveying, surveyors, landowners, and property rights (“property disputes”) is a different breed of civil litigation from most others. There are many unique aspects of this type of litigation not common to other cases.   The biggest difference is that the parties are paying for the litigation...

Why Opus Projects?

Part 1 of 2The new version of the NGS suite of Online Position User Service tools simplifies many tasks By Philippe HenselWith Dan Gillins, Dan Martin and Julie Prusky  NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) continues to improve its suite of Online Position User Service (OPUS) tools. In addition to single-point processing, OPUS offers a web-based...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 09/08/2023

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) Announces Performance Milestone for GHGSat Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Microsatellites Sony Electronics Launches Ultra-Lightweight, E-mount Interchangeable Lens Camera UP42 and ImageSat International Partner to Unlock Critical Applications of Geospatial Data Association for Royal Geographical Society Renew Collaboration Improving Efficiency and Reducing Damages to Underground Facilities Olivia Powell and EVONA trailblaze WGIC’s DEI...

Is It Really Impossible?

Looking Forward As the saying goes, it’s only impossible until it’s not. In the past when I’ve heard, or used, this bon mot I would think of the moon landing in 1969. I think of all the early astronomers who gazed at and intensely studied heavenly bodies, using them for navigation and location while knowing...