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xyHt Weekly News Recap – 5/5/17

Cadcorp launches Risk Modeller for Fire & Rescue Services Tallysman announces availability of NMO mount for Dual and Triple Band GNSS antennas Cheetah Air, a division of Cheetah Software Systems, to showcase its fully autonomous UAV platform enabling drone delivery and pickup capabilities at AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL 2017, Booth 1143 Elbit Systems of America Presents UAS...

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Aerial Data Collection: Little Drone Takes on Big Airport

In a first-of-its-kind project, a UAS is tasked to collect aerial data of an international airport. By Jeff Salmon Normally when you add the words “drone” and “airport” to a sentence, it classifies as cringe-inducing. Just the opposite is true with this ground-breaking UAS project. The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, usually abbreviated...

UAS: From FUD to FOMO

By Jeff Salmon Welcome to our semi-annual UAS-focused issue. Looking back over the last six years of UAS development, I am struck by how far the technology has progressed. Right before our eyes a new industry has developed, one that promises to bring far-reaching changes to our profession and indeed to the whole world. And...

xyHt Weekly News Links: 04/28/17

Teledyne DALSA previews its versatile and advanced LWIR camera platform at AUVSI Juniper Systems releases the Mesa 2 Rugged Tablet with Android O INTERGEO 2017 | SMART CARTOGRAPHY : How old-fashioned navigation aids have been transformed into today’s smart maps Octopus ISR Systems Integrates VectorNav GPS/INS to Develop Precision Geo-Lock Feature for Epsilon Series Gimbals...

Retracement in the Land of the Free

Art of Retracement By Warren D. Ward, PLS “I have to walk like a moose through this stuff!” claimed Glenny Dale, known on this crew as Glutton, The Old Man, because of his old legs. He had found a game trail that gave him about eight inches of flat path. But he had to tightrope his...

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