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xyHt Digital Magazine: June 2024

xyHt magazine’s June 2024  issue focuses on hydrography in the geospatial world. As the oceans become increasingly important and the “blue economy” grows, the topic is becoming more important to understand.    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...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/24/2024

NV5 Strengthens Subscription-Based Services with Acquisition of myBIMteam  Trimble Infinity Awards 18 Organizations for Excellence  NOAA, Verizon Frontline Enhance Storm Damage Assessment  New Mapping Technology Shows Carbon Stored In Britain’s Much-Loved Hedgerows  Canadian Hydropower Producer Upgrades Timing Network   Pix4D Upgrades PIX4Dcatch with Premium Augmented Reality Features  ElevateUAV Summit Returns to Miami for Three-Day Drone Conference ...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/17/2024

Mapping Canada’s Captive Wildlife Problem  Commercial UAV Expo Announces Path to Leadership Event Scholarship Program  Peter Rabley is New CEO at Open Geospatial Consortium  VIAVI Introduces Comprehensive Solution for Resilient PNT for Critical Infrastructure  Emlid, Pix4D Launch Mobile Terrestrial Scanning Kit  NOAA, Verizon Team Up to Advance Disaster Response Research     

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/10/2024

Teledyne FLIR Defense Unveils Rogue 1 Loitering Munition System at SOF Week  API Allows Customers to Directly Task World’s Largest SAR Satellite Constellation  Registration Open for Commercial UAV Expo  Airbus completes acquisition of UAS maker Aerovel  Descartes Labs Accelerates Mission-Ready Solutions with EarthDaily Constellation  Flight Chaos in NATO Countries Amid GPS Jamming  Shift5 introduces GPS...

Topobathymetric Lidar Tackles Great Lakes Coastal Mapping Project 

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is an effort to protect and restore the largest system of fresh surface water in the world—the Great Lakes. As a part of this initiative, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has an ongoing effort to update all its bathymetric maps in the Great Lakes region, including advanced maps...

Heights 2024

Click on the cover to view the Heights 2024 supplement to xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include: Moving into the Future: A small Texas photogrammetry company adopted UAVs and is now taking its business to new heights.  Modular Drone Sensor Payloads: The goal was flexibility. How Balko Technologies developed a truly modular solution that can evolve with the technologies and help...