Tag Archives: surveyors
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...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/05/2023
Leica Geosystems Introduces Pegasus TRK100 Sanborn Pioneers the Digital Twin Base Map Nexar Revolutionizes Map-Making with 40x Reduction in Real-Time Costs Bluesky and Ecopia Partner to Create First 3D Map of Ireland $300 Million Earmarked for Bridge Projects as Part of Investing in America Agenda Local Surveyors Show Students Ins And Outs Of The Job Bluesky,...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 03/03/2023
Bentley Systems Announces Retirement of Founder Keith Bentley First Autonomous Agricultural Drones Launched in Thailand Improved Location Accuracy Enables Hydraulic Modeling Drones in Vineyards Make Wine Growing Safer and Easier 17th Utility Investigation School Offered in May GeoComm Receives Patent for Translating Raw Geodetic Locations into Dispatchable Locations CGA Announces Industry Challenge to Cut Damages...
New Digital World Needs Data
Next-generation surveyors require specialized education and training to fill the role of geospatial data specialists. Many emerging geospatial applications, such as digital twins, 3D modeling, monitoring, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles, are based on big digital datasets. Building a 3D digital world starts with accurate data that ties to a point on the ground, so...
The Challenge of Channeling Water
From the Romans to the Everglades, the art of directing water flow has never been easy For thousands of years impromptu land surveyors tried, sometimes successfully, to force water to flow in a direction it did not want to go. This was done to help grow crops in areas where water was not abundant enough...
Surveyor’s Corner: Women in Surveying
The future for women in surveying is getting brighter all the time History tells us the journey for female surveyors began with Alice Fletcher in the late 1800s. Fletcher was a social scientist who tried to integrate Native Americans into the European culture spreading across America. After learning that Native Americans feared being banished to...
