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What GIS (knowledge) can do for AI?

Part 3 By Juan B. Plaza and Giulio Maffini Now that we have explored what AI can do for GIS in the first two parts of this series, let’s embark in the more complex task of exploring what a GIS-empowered AI will look like. First, let us clarify that it is our belief that it...

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...