Welcome to xyHt‘s October issue. Please enjoy our features on the impact geospatial technologies are making on history.

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Here are some highlights:

• Breaking Old Ground with Modern Equipment: Tom Hebert is creating a GIS map that could change the way dinosaur fossils are recorded and once successful could advance our understanding of the world they lived in.

• Mapping Florida’s Sea Turtles: Over the past five decades, human activity has caused sea turtles to become an endangered species, but now technology is helping track endangered marine life.

• Students Uncover History: Some members of the 2021 land surveying class at Cincinnati State have been busy bringing history back to life near the city of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, by preserve a pre-European Native American site.

• Remote Sensing and Historic Buildings: Researchers are demonstrating how lidar, combined with imagery and hyperspectral data, helps prevent costly damage to historic buildings in urban construction zones.

• Curt Sumner Stepping Down: Long-time NSPS executive director Curt Sumner is retiring, and judging from reaction around the surveying world, he will leave big boots to fill.