Tag Archives: Software
Supporting Free and Open-Source Software
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is sweeping across the IT industry, everywhere from office programs (LibreOffice) to GIS software (QGIS, R, Python). It is also being used extensively by large companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, and Netflix for their internal services as well as being used as building blocks to offer services to clients. ...
xyHt Digital Magazine: July 2022
xyHt’s July issue focuses on Geographic Information systems, looking at how GIS helps surveyors improve accuracy and how GIS is the technology for the next era. 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...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/01/2022
Letitia A. Long to Receive 2022 Lundahl-Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award Nation’s First Drone-on-Demand Mobile App Now Downloadable on All Devices Cartegraph Launches Right-of-Way Permitting Solution for Local Governments Airbus awarded FORUM Earth monitoring satellite contract from ESA South Korea launches KASS satellite to augment GPS SUE Association Announces National Conference Esri to Donate Software for...
Street-Level Lidar On Demand
As exciting as the advent of on-demand access to current, high-resolution lidar is, so are the tools available for ingesting, extracting features, analyzing, and sharing. “What we’re hearing right now, this is really an inflection point for the industry,” says Phil Christensen, vice president for reality and spatial modeling at Bentley Systems. “The software has...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 11/12/2021
Fugro Launches New Generation of Uncrewed Surface Vessels Teledyne Geospatial to Showcase Hardware and Software Solutions at Geo Business 2021 Trimble Establishes Dr. Gladys West Scholarship Program Woolpert Selected to Collect Aerial Lidar Data for Ohio 3DEP Women in Technology Nominations Due by Dec. 31 Bill Introduced to Reform National Flood Insurance Program First American...
Autonomy Comes to UAVs
Trending tech has UAV software looking futuristic To a certain degree, autonomous operations are already baked into the current state of data collection (aka reality capture) software for UAVs. Pre-mission planning consists of using a map-based interface to highlight the area that needs to be mapped or inspected, the appropriate flight pattern and height (AGL)...
