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The Forever Chainman
A friend and colleague recently used a phrase I hadn’t heard, but it caught my attention – Forever Chainman. My initial assumption was it was intended as a negative, but that didn’t seem consistent with his prolific positivity. He didn’t disappoint. He said he used it to describe a certain type of self-starting mentality that...
xyHt Weekly News Links: 12/04/2020
Jack Hild Inducted into GEOINT Hall of Fame BlackSky Names Uyen Dinh VP for Government Relations AEM Announces Advocates Program Award Winners Assessing Reef Island Sensitivity with Lidar-Derived Morphometric Indicators Autodesk BIM 360 Improves Construction Productivity and Safety Revolutionizing Powerline Inspection with AI
The Return of Loran
An obsolete WWII navigation system is making a comeback In the 1980s, I used Loran-C to navigate on sailing trips off the U.S. East Coast. It had an accuracy of a few hundred feet and required interpreting blue, magenta, black, and green lines that were overprinted on nautical charts. The system was a modernized version, launched...
xyHt Weekly News Links: 11/20/2020
Teledyne Optech Launches New European Service Center Becky Schneider Named Rising State in Women’s Technology Topcon Sends Equipment to Africa to Help Bridges to Prosperity Effort FARO Launches New Webshare Software “Enterprise” Feature AEM Announces Officers and Directors for 2021 NavVis Cloud Processing Now Faster for Laser Scanning Workflows
xyHt Weekly News Links: 11/13/2020
Esri Launches ArcGIS Field Maps Ground Image Capture for 3D Modeling on Your Mac Geospatial Intelligence in a Pandemic New Technology Protects Against Interference, Jamming and Spoofing Satellogic Launches 10 Satellites to Aleph-1 Constellation
PDR and the Pandemic
What continuing education will look like in the post-Covid-19 world Our Professional Development Record (PDR) hours—CPD in the UK—are a key part of the surveying and geospatial professions. Previously PDR would have involved a mixture of in-person training, in-person conferences and self-study training materials. With the Covid-19 restrictions on meeting other people face-to-face, meetings are...
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