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xyHt Digital Magazine: July 2022
xyHt’s July issue focuses on Geographic Information systems, looking at how GIS helps surveyors improve accuracy and how GIS is the technology for the next era. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/01/2022
Letitia A. Long to Receive 2022 Lundahl-Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award Nation’s First Drone-on-Demand Mobile App Now Downloadable on All Devices Cartegraph Launches Right-of-Way Permitting Solution for Local Governments Airbus awarded FORUM Earth monitoring satellite contract from ESA South Korea launches KASS satellite to augment GPS SUE Association Announces National Conference Esri to Donate Software for...
The Fangs and the Damage Done
By Cooper Ferko Introduction: Surveyors encounter dangerous situations in the field, and this includes wildlife. We’ve all had our snake encounters, venomous and non. There was a time when I was cavalier about it, flicking a snake away with a range pole. But that all changed around a campfire, at my cousin’s family camp near...
Surveyors and Appellate Court Opinions
Why should we care about appellate court opinions? I have had this question posed to me on numerous occasions. I suppose it has its roots in the old surveyor’s saw: “We don’t need to read court decisions, because you can never know what the judge is going to do.” While this may have a grain...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/24/2022
Bluesky LiDAR Data Helps Farmers Apply for Carbon Credits NV5 Acquires GEO1, Expands Position in Electrical Utility Geospatial Solutions SimActive Releases Version 9.2 with Phase One IIQ Integration Satellite Mapping of Shallow Waters of Belize is Largest Caribbean Survey of its Kind Esri Safety and Security Summit to Showcase Building Resilient Communities Commercial UAV Expo...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/17/2022
IMAGINiT Develops Additional Time-Saving Utilities for Autodesk Revit Surveying Shallow Water from Space Trimble Introduces OEM GNSS Receiver Module for Industrial Autonomy Applications Geo Connect Asia 2022 Hosts Close to 2,000 Professionals from 36 Countries Drone Nerds Introduces Advanced Mapping and Surveying Solution, the ViDoc RTK Rover Expedition to Deepest Point on Earth Will Collect...