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Sponsored Content: How Navigation Systems are Guiding the UAV LiDAR Revolution

  Introducing UAV LiDAR When the idea of integrating LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology into unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) first emerged, it sparked a new paradigm for both technologies. Suddenly, UAV operators not only gained a bird’s eye perspective of the land their aircraft flew over but also the ability to simultaneously generate 3D...

AI in the Sky

Will artificial intelligence solve the beyond visual line of sight problem for uncrewed aerial vehicles? For more than a decade now we have been moving more and more processes and tasks from crewed aviation to drones in a variety of industries, but the promise of widespread massive deployment of these electrically powered wonders is still...

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...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/09/23

Association for Geographic Information Partners with British Cartographic Society  Bowman Acquires MTX Surveying  Birmingham Creates Interactive Mapping Portal using Bluesky Tree Data  Valmont Records Longest BVLOS Drone Flight on the Wings of T-Mobile 5G  Applications Invited for URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet  Commercial UAV Expo Announces 2023 Conference Program and Speaker Line-Up  Commercial UAV Expo Program Released ...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/02/23

Seabed 2030 and NORBIT Oceans to Accelerate Global Ocean Mapping  Phase One Launches iXM-SP150 Space-Hardened Camera at GEOINT  CartoVista Unveils Latest in GIS Web Mapping Platforms  USGIF Announces Three New Scholarships Sponsored by St. Louis Organizations  NOAA Hires Woolpert for Hydrographic Survey, Bathymetric Data in Nome, Alaska  Commercial Drone Alliance and Commercial UAV Expo Announce...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/26/2023

Overture Maps Foundation Names Marc Prioleau Executive Director  Phase One Announces iXM-SP150 at GEOINT   Trimble Advances Reality Capture with the New X9 3D Laser Scanner  Maptitude Revolutionizes School Redistricting Process for Nashua School District  Esri Opens New St. Louis Office in Emerging GEOINT District  USGIF Announces 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient  Sonardyne upgrade for India’s...