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Looking up into the belly of a Cessna 206 airplane. The aerial photography camera is looking down through the hole.

New Heights: Aerial Photography, Aerial Data

A Louisiana company upgrades its aerial photography camera hoping its business will soar Featured image: Looking up into the belly of a Cessna 206 airplane. The camera is looking down through the hole. Infrastructure like bridges (this one in Tampa, Florida), airports and oil and gas pipelines require regular aerial mapping for maintenance, installation and...

Life Lessons in Surveying

In my Field Notes installments the past few years, I have often written from personal experience, partly to share, but also to stimulate the thoughts and memories of our readers. This will be no different, except these are experiences that have extended to life, in general. Early in my career, well it was a summer...

Launching the Future (of AEC)

Derek Baxter answers on how high-precision UAS mapping enables workflows for the future We’re coming up on nearly a decade of professional and pro-sumer small UAS applications for AEC and other industries. You’ll find a UAS in the toolboxes of many surveying, construction, and engineering teams, which do not give a second thought to launching...

xyHt Weekly News Links: 5/15/20

CHC Navigation Introduces the Apache3 | 2020 Edition How to efficiently process satellite imagery Drones stepping up fight against COVID-19, says GlobalData Mapping large datasets on the web U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Technology Partners for Remote ID Development Everything You Need to Know about Scan-to-BIM

xyHt Weekly News Links: 05/22/20

*Click here to visit xyHt’s Virtual Trade Show* GEO Business workshop will be held as webinar 32 U.S. Senators Oppose FCC’s Ligado Decision Commercial UAV Expo Europe 2020 goes virtual

Splitting the Difference at Willeo Road

How a surveyor’s due diligence is paying off for two counties in Georgia When the Survey Division of the Cobb County Department of Transportation in Marietta, Georgia, received a request to locate the exact county line between Cobb and Fulton counties, there was more at stake than just accurately identifying a boundary line. Government funding...

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