Tag Archives: gnss

xyHt Digital Magazine: September 2023

xyHt magazine’s September issue goes inside the GNSS rover to see exactly what’s in it and reveal how the technology works its magic. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital edition. Click here or...

xyHt Digital Magazine: July/August 2023

xyHt magazine’s combined July/August issue focuses on geographic information systems and and how the science has made its way into many aspects of our existence—how it is helping now and how it will help in the future. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the...

HAS Potential

Free and Global: The new high accuracy positioning service (HAS) of the Galileo constellation and its advantages for GIS and asset mapping If you consider field mapping applications, such as for GIS, asset inventory and management, and field operations for utilities, how wonderful would it be to have sub-foot positioning in real time, with no...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/14/23

Bluesky’s Airborne Sensors Help Developers Protect Wildlife Habitats New Trimble Terra Office Workflow Delivers Integration with Esri ArcGIS Pro USGIF Announces Six New Board Members For 2023-2024 Topcon Introduces Aptix Integration Platform for Heavy Civil Construction Penn State Win Topographic Mapping at National Surveying Championship Tallest Mountain in Idaho is Higher Than Thought Registration Open...

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 ...

The Responsibility to Map the U.S. Coastline

(And the Inevitability of New Geodetic and Tidal Datums) Since the arrival of the first pilgrims to the North American continent, there has been a need for precise knowledge of the coastline of the new country, and the reasons are obvious. Arrival by boat was the only alternative when crossing the Atlantic and escaping religious...