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Distinguishing Features
Inside the unique design of the Falcon 8 I must confess a little bit of UAS fatigue. Among the flood of new UAS, it takes a bit of research to find distinguishing features. It does make sense at one level that a basic form might evolve from so many parallel development efforts, but it makes...
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Crown Stone Dedication – 250th Anniversary of the Mason and Dixon Line Survey
The Mason and Dixon Line Preservation Partnership (MDLPP) will unveil a CrownStone set on the border of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Charles Mason and JeremiahDixon, 250 years ago. The Crown Stone was lost and had not been seen for over 110years. A replica Crown Stone, showing how the original stone looked when it was set,...
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What Is a Professional Land Surveyor?
As I was recently completing the comprehensive NSPS questionnaire developed as a follow-up to the Forum on the Future of Surveying (see Multiple Choices by Gavin Schrock, PLS), I found myself contemplating the many descriptions of land surveyors included along the way. After completing the questionnaire and providing some personal feedback, I couldn’t help but...
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Closer Than It Looks
Above: High-definition mapping sensors (lidar, digital, and oblique imagery, here mounted on a helicopter during collection of an autonomous vehicle mapping project) provide an accurate, cost-effective approach to limit the interference and potential delays related to collecting extensive control on a right of way. A hybrid of geospatial technologies could help autonomous vehicle mapping drive...
UAS — Don’t Blink
The audible signature of drones is readily recognizable. With the flood of consumer drones, the distinctive whir of those little propellers fills our skies and thoughts. But there is another sound associated with drones and their commercial manifestation in the form of UAVs and UAS that might someday soon be cause for alarm: the “whoosh”...
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xyHt Magazine May 2016 Issue
Click here to view the May 2016 issue of xyHt magazine.