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xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/16/2021
Esri Releases New Predictive 2050 Global Land Cover Map Esri Awards GIS Users for Innovations Velodyne Lidar Partners with NVIDIA Metropolis for Infrastructure Solutions Zoom75 & Zoom 95 – The New GeoMax Robotic Total Stations Lidar Helps Reveal Radiation Hot Spots at Chernobyl GIS-Pro 2021: October 3-6, 2021 Setting the Record Straight: The RETAIN Act...
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Surveying and GIS: It’s ‘And’, not ‘Or’
When I graduated from college several decades ago, a retiring drafting professor said to me, “The things that are going to change during your career are difficult to comprehend. I wish I was going to be around to be part of it.”
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xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/09/2021
BlackSky’s Technology Monitors Iranian Nuclear Facility Microdrones and GE Launch the GE Industrial Drone Line Ag Department Selects NV5 Global for Geospatial Forestry Contract Graphisoft Releases Archicad 25 Uni-Pact USV Empowers FMS Next-gen Survey Work Esri Announces 2021 ArcGIS Online Competition Winners Satellite Imagery Company Satellogic to Go Public Through Merger New Software System Aims...
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The Pressure Cooker – Interviews
Other than public speaking, perhaps the most anxiety-filled experience of life is the process of taking a job interview. The anxiety starts building from the moment you have been notified of the date and time. It borders on torture, sometimes for a week or more. It is often said that the best time to look...
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Early 3D Scanning Competition: 1998 – 2000, Part 13
When you join a start-up, as I did in 1998 with 3D laser scanning pioneer Cyra Technologies, you worry about two things. One is if your start-up’s “new thing” will catch on in the market and your company will survive. The second is if a competitor will “out-invent” you with something better (and your company...
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Saving the Big Cats with GIS
Location intelligence is helping livestock herders and lions peacefully share the land in Africa