xyHt magazine’s May 2024  issue focuses on UAVs and their continued expansion in the geospatial fields.   

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 edition. Click here or on the cover to the right, to view the xyHt May 2024 issue of xyHt magazine; or better yet, click here to have us send you a free copy of the print issue. 

Here are some highlights:   

Saving Alcatraz: Under attack on multiple fronts, the island of Alcatraz plays a historic role in America. But rising sea levels, climate change and Father Time are taking their toll. Can scanning and mapping the island and its buildings save it? 

Fiber to the Home: Mobile mapping is providing a reality capture solution for an ambitious fiber-to-the-home initiative in Ontario, Canada. Its success might mean high-speed Internet for everyone. 

Scanning and Natural Hazards: A team of academics and professionals based at the University of Washington is showing how laser scanning is shaping our resiliency to natural hazards.