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xyHt News Links: 10/28/16

Introducing the official B66 launch, the XXL camera focused on aerial data acquisition created by IMAO. NEXUS 800 Aerial Mapping Solution EngineerSupply Ranks in the Top 300 of B2B E-Commerce Companies for the Second Year in a Row DJI joins Propeller Aero on turnkey solutions GeoXphere launches at Intergeo to bring low-cost airborne sensors and Cloud...

IST Aerial’s Bo LeRoy uses the firm’s DJI Inspire One to collect data for volumetric calculations for compost piles located on a landfill in Colorado.

Drone design: What Goes into Designing a Drone?

A UAS firm tackles a topographic mission at 10,000 feet above sea level with their own system. (Above: IST Aerial’s Bo LeRoy uses the firm’s DJI Inspire One to collect data for volumetric calculations for compost piles located on a landfill in Colorado.) IST Aerial is a division of Integrated Science and Technology (IST), founded 25...

Mars Night Shift

Mars Colonization: Mars Need Surveyors, Part Two

This is Part 2 of our Mars Needs Surveyors series from the Pangaea newsletter.  Part 1 is here.  As the dream of Mars colonization comes to fruition, what would surveyors be tasked with? Habitat construction SpaceX’s Elon Musk’s vision is to build a city on Mars (appropriately named SpaceX City) that would eventually be inhabited...

Leveraging the Land Surveyor’s Roles: Testimony

Providing Testimony Editor’s note: This past May, Ambrose Gmeiner completed his Professional Science Masters Degree from the University of Maine. His final paper, “The Land Surveyor as a Project Lead and Providing Professional Testimony,” is the source for this series of articles on increasing the skills, strengths, and credentials of the professional land surveyor. There...

Charlie Trimble

Just Call Me Charlie

A Conversation with GPS and Technology Pioneer Charlie Trimble Click here to view a downloadable PDF of “Charlie Trimble Interview” When asked what the key was to his successes, Charlie Trimble, the co-founder of the global geospatial and navigation company that bears his name, thought for a moment and came up with: “I had a...

xyHt News Links: 10/21/16

Teledyne Optech announces new efficiency enhancement for ALTM™ Galaxy wide-area lidar mapping sensor Canon Launches the Océ PlotWave 550 Print System Designed to Greatly Enhance Large Format Technical Document Management AVEVA and AEGEX partner to deliver Digital Asset solutions in Hazardous Environments Rwanda Launches World’s First National Drone Delivery Service Powered by Zipline UAV Drones...

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