Tag Archives: geospatial

Out of Sight; Not Out of Mind

Cities are now creating their own subsurface utility maps to manage their underground assets. But the lack of an open-based geospatial model means that data are often not interoperable. A new mapping standard aims to fix that. In the years since 2004 when a leaking gas pipeline exploded in Ghislenghien, an industrial town in Belgium,...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/16/23

University of Maryland and Virginia Tech Earn USGIF Collegiate Accreditation  Galileo second gen enters full development phase  Large-scale survey of Albemarle Sound underway for NOAA  TCarta to Deliver Satellite Derived Bathymetry for 13 Regions to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency  Hexagon’s HxDR Powers Reality Cloud Studio, Ushering Automated Digital Reality into the Cloud  Hexagon Collaborates with NVIDIA...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/09/23

Association for Geographic Information Partners with British Cartographic Society  Bowman Acquires MTX Surveying  Birmingham Creates Interactive Mapping Portal using Bluesky Tree Data  Valmont Records Longest BVLOS Drone Flight on the Wings of T-Mobile 5G  Applications Invited for URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet  Commercial UAV Expo Announces 2023 Conference Program and Speaker Line-Up  Commercial UAV Expo Program Released ...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/02/23

Seabed 2030 and NORBIT Oceans to Accelerate Global Ocean Mapping  Phase One Launches iXM-SP150 Space-Hardened Camera at GEOINT  CartoVista Unveils Latest in GIS Web Mapping Platforms  USGIF Announces Three New Scholarships Sponsored by St. Louis Organizations  NOAA Hires Woolpert for Hydrographic Survey, Bathymetric Data in Nome, Alaska  Commercial Drone Alliance and Commercial UAV Expo Announce...

How Green Is Your City?

As tree-planting efforts take root in cities around the world, urban managers turn to geospatial tools to map and monitor their community’s canopy cover.  New Yorkers are fast walkers. But there are those who prefer to take it slow, like the group of well-trained volunteers who purposely roamed around the streets of the Big Apple,...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/12/2023

Phase One Takes Aerial Imagining to Another Level  GeoBusiness is Back for 2023  USGIF GEOINT Symposium Set for St. Louis May 21-24  Vexcel Offers Access to High-Resolution Imagery in Australia and New Zealand  Neusoft and HERE to Provide More Competitive Global Navigation Solutions  Trimble Introduces RTX Positioning Solution for Package Delivery Applications via Drones  WGIC...