Tag Archives: construction
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 ...
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...
Full-on, Mixed Reality Stakeout
Now, with a heads-up display visor and hand gestures—no controller needed—mixed reality construction layout just went from “sci-fi” to the job site. Stakeout – Struggling and Juggling Sorry, but I need to geek out a bit…. If you’ve ever done construction/survey staking then you know how cumbersome and time-consuming it can be. While there have...
Protecting Urban History
Researchers demonstrate how lidar, combined with imagery and hyperspectral data, helps prevent costly damage to historic buildings in urban construction zones. With every new underground urban rail or roadway tunnel, deep foundation shaft for a new building, or even simple streetscape upgrade, historically significant architecture in older city centers can become vulnerable. Earth displacement from...
A whole new approach, by any measure
Topcon provides a next generation of products designed to make you more productive and fill the need of a more connected approach to projects.
xyHt Weekly News Links: 9/25/20
STAEREA, Microdrones Team Up in Spain Drones and Future-Proofing the Construction Industry The Need for BIM Standards in Digital Construction AI: A Geospatial Revolution Carlson Releases New 2021 Software Riegl Lidar Sensors Aboard New DA42 MPP GeoStar Aircraft Geospatial World Awards 2020