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xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/06/2022
NSPS to Host Virtual Town Hall on Davis Bacon Act Regulations LiDAR for Drone 2022 Conference Set for June 13-14 in France World’s First Expandable Wing UAS Launches at AUVSI XPONENTIAL Army Corps of Engineers Picks Aero-Graphics for Geospatial Mapping and Surveying High precision mapping and automated workflows IDS GeoRadar launches cloud-based AI solution AiMaps...
Straight on to Mars (and Beyond)
In the last issue we raised the question of whether mankind should go back to the Moon as a way to fuel future space exploration. While that article states the many salient reasons to take this path, many people feel we should aim higher and go straight on to Mars. (For insights on what geospatial...
Mars Colonization: Mars Needs Surveyors!
Elon Musk’s plan to make us a space-faring and multi-planetary species will provide another planet to survey. Late last month, SpaceX’s founder Elon Musk unveiled his plan to start Mars colonization by 2025. Musk believes passionately that for humankind to survive in the long run, we must become a space-faring and multi-planetary species. Sooner or later,...
The New Spacescape
Small satellites are changing who dominates the field of satellite remote sensing. Move over military and government policy and regulation. Make way for private companies and even the public. There are big changes afoot in the satellite remote-sensing field: improved technology as well as regulatory shifts enabling the application of this technology (see “New Markets for Satellite...
