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xyHt Industry News Links: 4/29/16
Tallysman® Introduces High Performance Triple Band GNSS Antenna + L-Band Trimble Launches End-to-End Field Service Management Suite DJI Introduces Next-Generation Matrice 600 Aerial Platform NovAtel launches 40-centimeter correction service, TerraStar-L The Digit Group and CyberCity 3D Ink Development, Sales and Marketing Agreement Using Streaming 3D Maps for Smart Cities IoT Solutions MIT Develops Control Algorithm...
The Merging Trend in Aerial Mapping
My take on company consolidation in the aerial mapping industry. The old saying—that history repeats itself—seems to be as true as ever in the photogrammetric mapping industry. Twenty years ago, an investment group began acquiring aerial mapping companies with the goal to amass a powerhouse that would dominate the industry. I call this the battleship...
WaldoAir &The Space In-Between
James Summerville, president and CEO of WaldoAir, talks about how its aerial imaging system is capturing the niche between conventional UAS imaging systems. Heights: What were the driving forces for the development of the XCAM system? James Summerville: In 2013, my business partner Jim Kain and I decided the marketspace for imaging systems was overloaded...
GISWORX 2016
For most, work is a 9 to 5 grind that slowly eats at your core until you retire, find you have nothing to do, and get bored. Not if you work in the geospatial field though; everyday is a new adventure, and this month took me to the UAE, to be specific, Dubai for the...
A Correctly Weighted Least Squares Adjustment, Part 3
Estimating Standard Errors in Angular Observations In the previous articles (January and February 2016) I discuss the unreliability of standard deviations when they are computed from a small sample of observations, as well as how to estimate errors in centering an instrument over a well-defined point and how to estimate the standard error for electronically...
xyHt News Links: 4/22/16
3D Robotics Announces Transformative New Software for the Solo Smart Drone Platform Topcon and RDO announce expansion to GNSS network service Trimble Announces Call for Speakers for its 2016 Dimensions User Conference Introduction of complete propulsion systems at Xponential 2016 Investigation launched over possible UAV/airplane collision Leica Geosystems launches smart antenna with superior performance DJI Unveils...
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