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Upgrading GIS for a Better 911

The complex system of emergency call routing and critical location data delivery is getting a makeover Minutes can make a difference between life and death for 911 callers. A quick response with suitable equipment and knowledgeable personnel is the goal of 911 call centers across the country.  However, managing calls and texts from mobile phones...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/15/2022

MAPPS Summer Conference in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM Celebrating 40 Years of MAPPS Seabed 2030 Enters Partnership with Terradepth  to Boost Crowdsourcing Initiatives Teren Kicks Off Nationwide LiDAR Content Library Program TPM Expands Its AEC Product Offerings with Leica Geosystems Laser Scanning Solutions Esri Offers Free Online Course on Geospatial Software for AEC Projects Constellation...

The Challenge of Channeling Water

From the Romans to the Everglades, the art of directing water flow has never been easy For thousands of years impromptu land surveyors tried, sometimes successfully, to force water to flow in a direction it did not want to go. This was done to help grow crops in areas where water was not abundant enough...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/08/2022

Phase One and Trimble Announce Collaboration to Streamline High Quality Photogrammetric Workflow Commercial UAV Expo Announces Keynote Lineup for 2022 Event Lidar Data Helps Prioritize Flood Risk, Speed Recovery at Yellowstone NextTech: Tracing Relationships through the Supply Chain Letitia A. Long to Receive 2022 Lundahl-Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award Dominion Energy Secures Pivotal BVLOS Waiver for...

Surveyor’s Corner: Women in Surveying

The future for women in surveying is getting brighter all the time History tells us the journey for female surveyors began with Alice Fletcher in the late 1800s. Fletcher was a social scientist who tried to integrate Native Americans into the European culture spreading across America.   After learning that Native Americans feared being banished to...

Repositioning GIS

The technology that will drive the next era Esri calls GIS the nervous system of the planet, a platform relevant to almost every human endeavor. It’s a way to display, manipulate, and analyze geospatial data—and that ability is ever changing and expanding across industries.   GIS technology allows us to derive location intelligence from spatial and...

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