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Sometimes It’s What They Don’t Say 

When you’re trying to get something accomplished, it’s always disappointing to come up against that person who wants to disagree vehemently and debate the subject at hand. Sometimes when a surveyor is performing his duties to recover property boundary evidence in the field, the owner of an adjoining property may come along and try to...

AutoPole – Tilt, Height, and Target Identification

An innovative prism pole, the first of its kind, addresses three troublesome sources of error for robotic total station operation. Leica Geosystems (part of Hexagon) has just announced the AP20 AutoPole, a very smart new prism pole system for use with total stations. It incorporates multiple innovations that add up to—how else can I say...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 03/18/2022

GEO Business is back on 18-19 May  Miller-Wenhold Provides Tips for Planning National Surveyors Week Activities  Electric Construction Machines Vital for Cleaner and Greener Construction, Says IDTechEx   RapidDeploy brings modern mapping and analytics to emergency response in Minnesota  InterGeo 2022 to be Held in Essen, Germany  AUVSI Commends Safety Focused UAS BVLOS Rulemaking Committee Report ...

New Horizons in 2022

News from The Hydrographic Society of America  For those that are not too familiar with this organization, The Hydrographic Society of America Inc., also known as THSOA, is a non-profit professional membership organization, whose main focus is to provide support to its members in the Americas. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to promoting...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 03/11/2022

David Applegate Nominated to Head USGS Subsurface Utility Mapping Strategy Forum and Workshop March 22-25 Terradepth Launches Absolute Ocean to Map the World’s Oceans XMAP GIS Tool Aids UK Government’s £2 Billion Active Travel Schemes Innovations that Power Your Operations Headline Sonardyne’s Theme for Oi2022  Register for Global Surveyors Day Register for Carlson’s Go West...

Drones in Construction

For decades the construction industry didn’t change much-and then UAV technologies came along Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones, as they are commonly called, are mostly electric-powered aircraft, which do not require a pilot onboard and are used to perform tasks that are either too dangerous for humans to do or too expensive with other...

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