Tag Archives: uav
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/09/23
Association for Geographic Information Partners with British Cartographic Society Bowman Acquires MTX Surveying Birmingham Creates Interactive Mapping Portal using Bluesky Tree Data Valmont Records Longest BVLOS Drone Flight on the Wings of T-Mobile 5G Applications Invited for URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet Commercial UAV Expo Announces 2023 Conference Program and Speaker Line-Up Commercial UAV Expo Program Released ...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/02/23
Seabed 2030 and NORBIT Oceans to Accelerate Global Ocean Mapping Phase One Launches iXM-SP150 Space-Hardened Camera at GEOINT CartoVista Unveils Latest in GIS Web Mapping Platforms USGIF Announces Three New Scholarships Sponsored by St. Louis Organizations NOAA Hires Woolpert for Hydrographic Survey, Bathymetric Data in Nome, Alaska Commercial Drone Alliance and Commercial UAV Expo Announce...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 05/26/2023
Overture Maps Foundation Names Marc Prioleau Executive Director Phase One Announces iXM-SP150 at GEOINT Trimble Advances Reality Capture with the New X9 3D Laser Scanner Maptitude Revolutionizes School Redistricting Process for Nashua School District Esri Opens New St. Louis Office in Emerging GEOINT District USGIF Announces 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Sonardyne upgrade for India’s...
The Advantages of “Built Here”
There are reasons other than policy and security to consider domestically produced drones. Yes, when it comes to the drone market there is an almost “default” choice. Having established dominance, it further benefits from price by volume. And then they can invest more in R&D from the increased profits—if they choose to and do not...
The Incredible UAV
Looking Forward Land surveyors aren’t just surveyors anymore. Map makers aren’t just cartographers anymore. We are all tied together in these geospatial professions of measuring, mapping, photogrammetry—anyone who collects and interprets data. We are ‘geospatialists.’ One of the things that tie all of us together is uncrewed aerial vehicles. A few years ago, who would...
Teaching the Ethics of Geo
Maps have always been powerful means of communication, whether etched in cave walls, stone, wood, silver of centuries past, or, in the 20th Century, copper plates and, later, film. In our own century, maps are everywhere—on our phones, computers, fitness apps, and news media, communicating in a myriad of ways about changes over space and...
