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xyHt Weekly News Recap: 11/19/2021
NSPS 21st Annual Student Competition Bushfire Mitigation through Machine Learning with AusNet and AWS Register for 11th Utility Investigation School in Golden, Colorado Young Surveyors Network to Meet Dec. 4 Fugro to Update Cayman Islands Hydrography for UKHO with Carbon-Neutral Survey Scan to BIM In Minutes Webinar on Nov. 30 Global Navigation Satellite Systems Market Expected to Grow 8.2% During...
Safety First
If you look at a list of the most dangerous jobs in America, you won’t see surveyor listed in the top 25, but I believe that is because most of us only spend a small percentage of our time working along the highway or on a construction site. As many can attest, those situations are...
Protecting Urban History
Maximizing the data collected from airborne lidar helps protect historic structures in older cities In Part I last month, we outlined the research performed in Dublin, Ireland, and Brooklyn, N.Y., using hyperspectral scanning to help old cities protect historically significant buildings during new construction projects. In Part II, NYU professor, Dr. Debra Laefer, explains how...
It’s All About the Journey
I was recently looking at the archive of past Field Notes and was amazed how far back I had to go to get to my first one – March 2016. What began as a lone article submission on subsidence in California has resulted in a five-plus-year journey of writing this monthly piece— a journey I...
A BIM of Hope for the Environment
This innovative building information modeling tool aims to reduce the construction sector’s carbon footprint. But unlike other practices, it begins at the design phase. The construction sector is in a conundrum. Decades of non-stop sawing and hammering have been wonderful for the world’s economy yet dismal for the environment. In the latest figures from the...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 11/12/2021
Fugro Launches New Generation of Uncrewed Surface Vessels Teledyne Geospatial to Showcase Hardware and Software Solutions at Geo Business 2021 Trimble Establishes Dr. Gladys West Scholarship Program Woolpert Selected to Collect Aerial Lidar Data for Ohio 3DEP Women in Technology Nominations Due by Dec. 31 Bill Introduced to Reform National Flood Insurance Program First American...
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