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Your Favorite Pangaea Issues of 2018
With 2019 only a few weeks in, let’s look back at the past year and its highpoints. As your editor I took a look at the 2018 issues ranked by readership. Here’s the top three, why I think they were so popular, and the takeaways from each. Got GPS? Thank Hedy Lamarr I think this...
Tracking Wildlife from the Sky
Above: Alan Wilson studied how cheetahs hunt with his modified aircraft. Credit: Stuart Dunn. To uncover the source of the cheetahs’ legendary hunting prowess, a researcher used a customized aerial camera to survey, film, and track their hunts. As recently profiled in a BBC documentary, Professor Alan Wilson, head of a research department at the...
GIS in K-12
Above: Middle school students collect macroinvertebrates in Rocky Mountain National Park. The data will be mapped and analyzed using a GIS. Credit: Joseph Kerski. Where did you first learn about GIS? Was it in a course at a university or a community college? Were you an undergraduate or graduate student? Was it at a conference,...
Weekly xyHt News Links: 12/7/2018
A look at NGS’ experimental and hybrid geoid models How much can you earn in the Geospatial Industry? Russia plans to place positioning satellites around the Moon Tersus introduces Oscar GNSS RTK system Septentrio launches tiny Mosaic high-precision GNSS module Enview Launches AI-powered Solution to Automatically Detect Vegetation Near Power Lines Carlson Software Releases Carlson...
Great Gifts for Geospatial Pros
Marc Delgado’s Picks For this year’s Holiday Gift Guide, I’m rooting for a digital detox. For geospatial pros who’d like to spend the holidays away from their electronic gadgets, these are my top choices. How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier, now on its third edition, is a must-have for the new generation of...
Land Surveyors: Our Place in History
Editor’s Note: Thank you to John S. Rogers, Arizona Surveying, Inc., Flagstaff, AZ, for his comprehensive thoughts on the prominent role our scientific profession has played throughout the ages. I suspect, or certainly hope, that all professional land surveyors across the country, and our counterparts across the world, have a good understanding of many of the...
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