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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
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Using Lidar to Strengthen Ground Control
With the maturity of aerial photogrammetry in the early 1900s in pre-war Germany, military applications, especially reconnaissance and semi-accurate 3D maps and approximate contour lines, became the norm.
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Celebrating Surveyors’ Importance and Protecting Professional Integrity
The surveying profession throughout the U.S. will soon celebrate National Surveyors Week, which as surveyors know is designated for the week in March following the third Sunday.
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Moving Water in the Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) is one of those unforgettable places that can change a person’s life.
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Lidar and Ice
Manfred Burchroithner grew up in the Austrian Alps not far from Eisriesenwelt, a stunning 26-mile long ice cave that is the largest in the world.
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xyHt Magazine Digital Edition: March 2021
xyHt's March issue focuses on lidar and aerial imaging and the creative ways these evolving technologies are being implemented.