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The 2017 Flooding of Missouri’s Meramec River
Missouri’s Meramec River is one of the largest free-flowing waterways in the state. With a source southwest of St. Louis, in Dent County, and the mouth at the Mississippi River in Arnold, some 20 miles south of St. Louis, its meandering 220 miles drain nearly 4,000 square miles in a watershed covering six Missouri counties....
Assessing the Potential
UAS-based Topobathymetric Lidar Surveys Understanding stream channel and floodplain morphology is critical for a number of efforts—from hydraulic modeling and stream-restoration design to aquatic habitat assessment. These applications require description of conditions both inside the channels and in the adjacent riparian zones. Gathering these data has typically relied on individuals on the ground or in...
Weekly xyHt News Links: 04/13/2018
Trimble Launches Marine Positioning GNSS Receiver Sky Power and 3W-International are Introducing Engine Construction Kits for the First Time at Xponential 2018 Latest YellowScan Lidar System Designed for UAV Surveys Trimble’s Forensics Solution Enables Efficient Data Collection for Crash and Crime Scene Investigators Topcon Announces New Features Added to Web-based Service for Mass Data Processing...
Registration Open – Young Surveyors Network – Joint Meeting 2018
Plotting a Course for the Future Registration is now open for the Joint Meeting of the FIG and NSPS Young Surveyors Networks October 17-18, 2018 – Hyattsville Maryland, USA The meeting will be at the College Park Marriott hotel and conference center in East Hyattsville, MD, near the University of Maryland‘s campus, and is being held...
BigSUR
A software team creates a large-scale, structured, urban reconstruction system that handles multiple data sources with deep learning. Today, big data is ubiquitous: we have more information than ever, but combining and understanding all this data has become the challenge. This is particularly true for 3D cartography as we view our continually changing world with...
Rocket Billionaires
Here’s a great example of serendipity. Not so long ago I took a break from my daily routine and flipped on the TV. The set was tuned to the science channel, and just as the screen flickered to life I beheld the sight of the first launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy as it lifted off....
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