Tag Archives: satellite
A Breath of Fresh Air
To improve urban air quality monitoring and help keep their citizens healthy, cities around the world are now combining traditional data capture techniques with geospatial technologies. If you happen to be driving or walking around Washington. D.C., this past summer, then there is a good chance that you crossed paths with one of the blue...
What’s Inside Your GNSS Rover? Part 2
The second installment of a three-part look at the inner workings of high-precision surveying rovers. In Part One of this series (xyHt magazine, September 2023 issue) we focused on the antenna, amplification, and housing elements of rovers. This installment continues with channels, boards, and gates. Channels There is a lot of misunderstanding about what receiver...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 09/29/2023
Trimble and Kyivstar Partner to Provide GNSS Correction Services for Applications in Ukraine Virtual Surveyor Unveils Photogrammetry App in Major New Release of Smart Drone Survey Software Emlid Releases Reach RS3 GNSS Receiver with Tilt Compensation Esri and NSPS Present Surveyor’s and GIS Webinar Series Thailand to Launch THEOS-2 into Space on October 7th! A...
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...
Looking Forward: The Ocean
I have been fascinated by the ocean since my parents first planted me on a beach towel along the sandy expanse of the Atlantic Ocean when I was barely old enough to care. Like fire, the ocean is always the same but somehow is constantly changing. It has a mesmerizing quality of ever-flowing motion and...
Bridge Watchers
Smart sensors and satellites are being used to actively monitor bridges and large infrastructures. With eyes in the sky and ears on the ground, can this new technology improve public safety? Despite what the lyrics of the popular English nursery rhyme may have our young ones believe, the London Bridge has actually never fallen down. ...
