Tag Archives: surveying
xyHt Digital Magazine: June 2024
xyHt magazine’s June 2024 issue focuses on hydrography in the geospatial world. As the oceans become increasingly important and the “blue economy” grows, the topic is becoming more important to understand. 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...
Are Surveyors Professionals or Merely Technicians?
Legal Boundaries This is a question that has haunted the surveying profession for years if not decades. A second related question is: What’s the difference? Curtis Brown addressed this issue in an article he wrote that in 1961 that was published in the ACSM’s Surveying and Mapping magazine, entitled “The Professional Status of Land Surveyors.”...
The Enduring Technology of Digital Levels Part Two
We continue our look at the foundational technology and design of precision levels for surveying with an examination of the evolution of the Digital Nivellier.
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/10/2024
Teledyne FLIR Defense Unveils Rogue 1 Loitering Munition System at SOF Week API Allows Customers to Directly Task World’s Largest SAR Satellite Constellation Registration Open for Commercial UAV Expo Airbus completes acquisition of UAS maker Aerovel Descartes Labs Accelerates Mission-Ready Solutions with EarthDaily Constellation Flight Chaos in NATO Countries Amid GPS Jamming Shift5 introduces GPS...
Saving Alcatraz (Digitally)
The infamous island is under attack by climate change, rising sea levels, and old age. Can scanning it from the sky and on the ground preserve it? When the first functional photogrammetry uncrewed aviation vehicles (UAVs) became mainstream technology around 2013, geodesists and land surveyors around the world adopted these flying wonders as an innovative...
Alcatraz from Above and Below
Looking Forward When xyHt author Juan B. Plaza phoned me and said he had access to information and data generated from a recent geospatial project on Alcatraz Island and that he wanted to provide the magazine with a story, I thought, well, that’s pretty cool. In our February issue this year I had written a...
