Tag Archives: USGS

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 12/23/2022

Worldwide Demand for Drone Services Anticipated to Reach $25 billion by 2033 USGS Recognizes Sanborn Expertise in AI/ML for Natural Resource Mapping Asia’s Leading Geospatial Event Returns to Singapore March 15-16 Airbus Hits Milestone on European Satellite-based Navigation Augmentation System Market for Commercial Earth Observation Data to Reach $7.9 Billion by 2031 Satellite Demand to...

On the House

Free data make the mapping world go round Reliable geospatial data used to be hard to find and expensive. But thanks to the profusion of online data repositories, it’s now at our fingertips for free. It is telling that one of the first websites where mapmakers can have access to free satellite imagery was created...

What to do With All the Lidar Data

An age-old Aesop’s Fable adage says, “Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true!” When the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) embarked on the National Enhanced Elevation Assessment (NEAA) in 2012, the goal was to document the national-level requirements for enhanced elevation data. Little did USGS know at the time, the report would be...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 04/22/2022

Biden Administration Plays Up Billions for Rural Infrastructure AGI Welcomes Business Development Specialist Angela Arriaga Trimble and Infotech Expand Collaboration to Improve Inspection Efficiencies for Infrastructure CHC Navigation Introduces Airborne Lidar Series  Drone Nerds Displays Emerging Drone Technology Solutions at AUVSI XPONENTIAL NSPS Cosigns USGS Streamgages Letter PAR Government and BlackSky Deliver Near Real-Time Imagery Russia is...

Island Hopping

Using topo-bathy lidar to map distant islands helps develop high-resolution 3D topographic data for the U.S. and its territories

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 03/05/2021

Tensing Recognized as Esri Utility Network Specialist Forum Will Explore the Geospatial Metaverse USGIF Board of Directors Appoints New Chair Concept3D Helps Struggling Tourism Industry Lidar Improves Port Efficiency Sanborn, USGS Partner on Arizona Lidar Project Global Surveyors’ Day is March 23 Woolpert Acquires CivilTech Engineering in Expansion