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Putting the Best Foot Forward

 Surveyors’ Corner We are upon a solemn moment in the land surveying profession. Yes, we’ve all known for a while that this end-of-era moment was coming, but now it ends without pomp or circumstance, without the formality of an obituary, without even a memorial service. We bid adieu to a long-faithful companion that, for all...

Sky High

UAVs deliver practical and highly technical mobile mapping Collecting imagery with uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) is ideal for a variety of applications including topographic mapping, forestry ground and canopy measurements, powerline corridor mapping, Digital Terrain Model (DTM) generation, high-resolution digital imagery, and orthophoto production, along with support for a variety of other mapping needs.  Historically,...

Is High-Precision GNSS Coming to Your Smartphone?

We have seen over the past four decades how our traditional profession of making maps went from obscurity to mainstream to widely adopted, everyday reality. When I attended university for my geodesy degree in the early 80s everyone who had a car also had a road map in the glove compartment—from a basic road grid...

xyHt Digital Magazine: October Issue

xyHt’s October issue focuses on data acquisition, whether from GNSS, your smartphone or the increasingly available satellite data that is being made on the Internet for free. 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...

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...

GNSS: The Archaeologists Tool of Choice

While we may want to believe that archaeology is a trade full of fedoras, whips, and mummies, you shouldn’t always believe what you see in the movies. That’s because when it comes to actual archeological projects, GNSS has emerged as the true tool of the trade.  “Before GNSS, the archeological excavation process was both cumbersome,...