Tag Archives: mapping
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 ...
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...
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...
Tracking the Paranormal
Mapping Your World Ever wonder where Bigfoot hangs out? What about where most UFOs fly by? Explore both with this per capita UFO and Bigfoot sightings map. The map by Kate Berg, which is featured in the 2023 GeoHipster calendar, cross references sightings of both by county. See what trends or patterns you glean from...
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,...
