All posts by Jeff Thoreson
xyHt Digital Magazine: May 2023
xyHt’s May issue focuses on uncrewed aerial vehicles and uncrewed aerial systems. As is the case with almost every aspect of the geospatial professions, UAVs and UASs are constantly evolving with advances in technology. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your...
The Cahokia Mounds
The largest single-instrument geophysical survey ever in America hopes to uncover some of the mysteries of the Cahokia Mounds Long, long before any of our great Mississippi River cities, and long before Europeans landed on New World shores and pushed westward, Native Americans were thriving in an urban center so big and so complex it...
GIS Related Conversation with Chat GTP 3.5
September 23, 2023 Which Geographic Information Systems software are you familiar with? ChatGPT: I’m familiar with a variety of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software packages that were available up to my knowledge cutoff date in September 2021. Some of the commonly used GIS software include: ArcGIS by Esri: ArcGIS is one of the most widely...
Looking Forward: Scanning History
Looking Forward On a family cruise to Mexico several years ago, I was intent on seeing the Mayan ruins at Tulum. It required a 45-minute ferry from Cozumel to Playa del Carmen and then an hour bus ride to the ruins. With the palm trees, warm Caribbean December breeze, white-sand beaches, and warm aqua water...
xyHt Digital Magazine: April 2023
xyHt’s April issue focuses on surveying, including modern technologies being used in a massive geophysical survey and historic equipment that got the profession to where it is today. 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, here is the...
Construction on the Move
Looking Forward From the very first construction project (possibly the addition of an extra room on to a Neanderthal cave) until the late 20th century, construction technology moved at a glacial pace. But in the last few decades, especially the last decade, innovation has taken off. And if you think the changes in the most...
