All posts by Jeff Thoreson
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 6/30/23
Dynamic Map Platform Expands Mapping Operations to South Korea Esri Partners with Databricks to Bring Spatial Analytics Functionality to the Lakehouse Platform Maxar and Esri Expand Partnership to Visualize Precision3D™ in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World WGIC Welcomes Nominations for DEI Trailblazer Awards 2023
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 6/23/23
New Seafloor Mapping Program Supports Marine Safety and Planning in Two Indigenous Communities Alameh Selected as Inaugural Executive Director of Taylor Geospatial Institute LexisNexis Improves Insurer Risk Assessment Portfolio with National Tree Map SAM Companies Acquires AXIS GeoSpatial Leica Geosystems Introduces Hybrid Imaging and Lidar Sensor for Airborne Mapping GEO Business 2023 Receives Glowing Reviews ...
Looking Forward: The Ocean
I have been fascinated by the ocean since my parents first planted me on a beach towel along the sandy expanse of the Atlantic Ocean when I was barely old enough to care. Like fire, the ocean is always the same but somehow is constantly changing. It has a mesmerizing quality of ever-flowing motion and...
xyHt Digital Magazine: June 2023
xyHt’s June issue focuses on hydrography and the importance of our ocean, both mapping the seabed beneath the water and the surface factors that influence everything from commerce to climate change. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret,...
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...
The Incredible UAV
Looking Forward Land surveyors aren’t just surveyors anymore. Map makers aren’t just cartographers anymore. We are all tied together in these geospatial professions of measuring, mapping, photogrammetry—anyone who collects and interprets data. We are ‘geospatialists.’ One of the things that tie all of us together is uncrewed aerial vehicles. A few years ago, who would...
