Tag Archives: drone
Embracing the Drone Revolution
Surveyor business models changing in the BVLOS era Over the past few months, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), working with the drone industry, academia, and general aviation membership organizations such as AOPA (www.aopa.org) and NBAA (www.nbaa.org), has been able to advance the cause of uncrewed flights beyond visual line of sight of the operator (BVLOS). ...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/01/2022
Letitia A. Long to Receive 2022 Lundahl-Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award Nation’s First Drone-on-Demand Mobile App Now Downloadable on All Devices Cartegraph Launches Right-of-Way Permitting Solution for Local Governments Airbus awarded FORUM Earth monitoring satellite contract from ESA South Korea launches KASS satellite to augment GPS SUE Association Announces National Conference Esri to Donate Software for...
UAVs and Living Data
Digital twins are becoming important data for buildings and infrastructure in cities, but a utility in Chile is twinning its power corridors and adding seemingly unrelated data to identify, predict, and avoid power outages. We live in an era of combining technologies. For the past few decades, we have witnessed the most impressive movement of...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 04/22/2022
Biden Administration Plays Up Billions for Rural Infrastructure AGI Welcomes Business Development Specialist Angela Arriaga Trimble and Infotech Expand Collaboration to Improve Inspection Efficiencies for Infrastructure CHC Navigation Introduces Airborne Lidar Series Drone Nerds Displays Emerging Drone Technology Solutions at AUVSI XPONENTIAL NSPS Cosigns USGS Streamgages Letter PAR Government and BlackSky Deliver Near Real-Time Imagery Russia is...
When a Drone Just Can’t Do It
There is a growing ebb in the tide of UAS adoption for aerial surveying, mapping, and remote sensing—finding the right balance between manned and unmanned aerial operations Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), or just plain old “drones”—call them whatever you wish—have had a tremendous impact on geospatial industries. A decade ago,...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 04/08/2022
FIG Congress 2022 in Warsaw: Registration Now Open Gold Shovel Association to Become Part of Common Ground Alliance 3,500 Attend Amsterdam Drone Week URISA Accepting Nominations for the GIS Hall of Fame Australian Firms Deliver High-Resolution Hyperspectral Earth Observation Microsatellites CoreLogic and EagleView Enhance Claims Processing Automation Quanergy 3D Lidar Flow Management Solution Deployed to...