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Weekly xyHt News Links: 10/10/2019
Terra Drone launches AI-based UAV solution for power lines Trimble to acquire GIS company Cityworks for EAM expansion Carlson Software Leads Competition in All Metrics EarthCam Introduces AI-Powered Visual Data for Procore Daily Log Automation Golden Software Packages Now Available on GeoCloud SaaS Platform
3D Evidence
Diagram software helps the New Mexico State Police enhance their extensive forensics work. Reconstructing what happened at the scene of a traffic accident or a crime is a complex undertaking involving scientific methods, physical evidence, deductive reasoning—and their interrelationships. It also requires hardware to gather data and software to analyze it and display it. Laser...
Rock, Paper, Drones
Above: Luck Stone flies one of their UAVs over their Bealeton quarry plant in Virginia. Luck Stone, a large mining and aggregates company, significantly improves their workflows and planning with UAVs and Delair’s UAV platform. In the mining and aggregates sector, half of your success is in the planning. Being prepared to have inventory available,...
Robotics Above, On, and Underwater
Demo-ing Drones at UAS Colorado’s “Robotics on the Rez” Event In the September 10th issue of Pangaea we talked about Future Prepping: getting ready for the next generation of geospatial technology. I’d like to add another educational resource to that list: product demos. Product demonstrations are a great way to get a hands-on look at...
Half-Earth Day 2019
E.O. Wilson Spearheads a Global Call to Action In 2016, Edward O. Wilson, the “Father of Biodiversity,” wrote a book called Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. In the third part of a trilogy, after The Social Conquest of Earth and The Meaning of Human Existence, Wilson refutes our impending sixth extinction and argues the...
Clear Scanning on the Clearwater
Above: The survey included collecting bathymetric data on the river bottom and bridge substructure with multibeam sonar as well as capturing above- and below-waterline mobile mapping data with the Leica Pegasus: Two mobile sensor platform. Two well-paired engineering firms used high-accuracy mobile mapping to combine bathymetry and lidar data for a fast-turnaround topographic survey of...
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