Tag Archives: drone
On the House
Free data make the mapping world go round Reliable geospatial data used to be hard to find and expensive. But thanks to the profusion of online data repositories, it’s now at our fingertips for free. It is telling that one of the first websites where mapmakers can have access to free satellite imagery was created...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 09/02/2022
Trimble Sets Ambitious Climate Goals for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Line with a Net-Zero Future Ligado Approaches Canada for Spectrum Permission, Comments Sought Drones Help GIS Go From 2D to 3D Digital Twin Deployments AgEagle CEO Barrett Mooney to Speak at Commercial UAV Expo 2022 Esri Book Helps Current Software Users Transition to ArcGIS...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 08/26/2022
Public Comment Requested on Revision to OGC 3D Streaming Community Standard Commercial geospatial technologies that detect GPS disruptions to be tested in military exercises Senators Urge FCC to Reconsider Order Granting Ligado Applications Civil GPS Service Interface Committee Meeting Set for September 19-20 EuroGeographics welcomes strengthened UN-GGIM Reveal Technology and Teal Drones Demonstrate Multi-Drone Mapping...
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...
