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Sounds Good -
Using powerful simulation algorithms, this young and award-winning acoustics software startup from Iceland is making sound visible. No wonder it’s already creating a buzz in the BIM community and there are major benefits to linking BIM tools with an acoustic simulation product.
https://www.xyht.com/bim/sounds-good/
#3dmodels #acoustics #AEC #BIM #finland #innovation #Technology #trebletechnologies
Treble Technologies Danmarks Tekniske Universitet - DTU
Meet Swifty, the Near-space Drone Democratizing Aerial Imagery
“Swifty” is Near Space Labs’ autonomous, zero-emission, high-altitude robot that makes frequent flights into the stratosphere flying between 60,000 and 85,000 feet in the air using a sophisticated weather balloon.
The unit can capture a massive 400 to 1,000 square kilometer of imagery per flight, approximately the size of all of New York City’s five boroughs, at 10 centimeter per pixel resolution. The mission of Near Space Labs is to democratize high-quality geospatial data to allow communities, businesses, municipalities, and researchers to tackle humanity’s biggest challenges—like urbanization and climate change.
Weather balloons allow inexpensive access to near space but lack control as they are subject to the prevailing winds. Swifty provides propulsion, navigation, and the requisite sensor package to capture high-altitude aerial data sans airplanes, drones (limited to 400 feet), and satellites.
https://tinyurl.com/xyht112208
#weatherballoon #stratosphere #geospatial #swifty #aerialdata
Farming From Space:
Airbus and Sentinel Fertigation use satellite imagery to improve sustainable crop production
With help from Airbus’ detailed high-resolution 30cm satellite imagery provided by Pléiades Neo, a Midwest crop management software platform is offering a streamlined process for farmers fertilizing crops via irrigation (known as fertigation). Using multispectral imagery of field conditions, Lincoln, Nebraska-based Sentinel Fertigation is helping farmers to sustainably monitor crops and fields through remote viewing.
https://www.xyht.com/enviroag/farming-from-space/
#agriculture #Airbus #drone #EPA #imagery #satellite #uav
Sentinel Fertigation Airbus
Sky High: UAVs deliver practical and highly technical mobile mapping
The most rapid development taking place in the UAV industry today is the dramatic improvements witnessed in new and improved GNSS/inertial for direct georeferencing (DG) and imaging sensors, purpose-built for mapping and surveying from UAVs.
Continue reading here:
https://www.xyht.com/aerialuas/sky-high/
#digitalimagery #drone #Georeferencing #gnss #imaging #sensors #lidar #mapping #orthophoto #uav
Applanix Corporation RIEGL Phase One Microdrones YellowScan
Your weekly geospatial news recap is here and includes companies such as Leica Geosystems, NSPS - The National Society of Professional Surveyors, RIEGL and others. Click the link below to read more.
https://www.xyht.com/pressreleases/xyht-weekly-news-links-11-18-2022/
#earthquake #geospatial #GIS #hexagon #Leica #lidar #news #NSPS #Optech #RIEGL #satellite #teledyne
Esri Press: GIS for Emergency Management
Agencies around the world rely on geographic information systems (GIS) every day to plan for and mitigate complicated threats and hazards and coordinate emergency response and recovery efforts. Location intelligence provides the kind of deep, real-time data insights needed for managers, directors, and other decision-makers to analyze risk, gain situational awareness, and manage tomorrow’s emergencies.
Dealing with Disasters: GIS for Emergency Management ($23.99, available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and IndieBound booksellers) explores a collection of real-life case studies about emergency management agencies successfully using GIS for real and potential hazards. Chapters are laid out to explore three primary areas of disaster management: Preparedness, response, and recovery. Each of the three themed parts also includes a “how to get started” section that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS for emergency management, and an index organized by disaster type allows you to quickly learn or refresh yourself on GIS implementation.
https://tinyurl.com/xyht1106
#esri #GIS #emergencymanagement #geospatial #weather
Field Notes: It's a Wonder
Surveying is a fascinating and wonderful profession ¬ just think about the great things that we have the opportunity to accomplish from day-to-day. We may create a new tract of land through subdivision which allows a young person to have a new home on their own piece of property, or we may settle a property dispute between two parties that will allow for peaceful existence into the future. Not only those types of cadastral surveys, but what about the large aerial mapping projects that require ground control? Those projects often lead to the design of major land improvements, including highways, buildings, parks, etc. The list goes on and on.
https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=cdf7e9cc9a1a12b28f21f7ff4&id=f4c71ed5fe
#fieldnotes #geospatial
Jon Robertson with Teledyne chats with the editor of xyHt magazine at the 2022 Trimble Dimensions Conference
https://www.xyht.com/videos/25857/
#teledyne #trimbledimensions #geospatial
Teledyne Marine
New Digital World Needs Data
Next-generation surveyors require specialized education and training to fill the role of geospatial data specialists.
Many emerging geospatial applications, such as digital twins, 3D modeling, monitoring, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles, are based on big digital datasets. Building a 3D digital world starts with accurate data that ties to a point on the ground, so everything correctly relates to everything else for designs and measurements.
Demand for trained surveyors to obtain that data offers attractive opportunities that go far beyond boundary surveys. Additional training and expertise with advanced surveying technology is needed.
https://www.xyht.com/surveying/new-digital-world-needs-data/
#3D #3dmodeling #auv #digitaltwins #engineering #geodesy #geospatial #hydrography #laserscanning #NSPS #photogrammetry #pointclouds #remotesensing #surveying #surveyors #Topographic #virtualreality
Penn State Wilkes-Barre Borton-Lawson NSPS - The National Society of Professional Surveyors Leica Geosystems
Jeff Thoreson with xyHt and Jesse Donahue with Briq chat during the 2022 Trimble Dimensions Conference
https://www.xyht.com/videos/jeff-thoreson-with-xyht-and-jesse-donahue-with-briq-chat-during-the-2022-trimble-dimensions-conference/
#briq #trimbledimensions #geospatial
Trimble Geospatial Briq
Finding My Boundaries: A Happy Loneliness
Henry David Thoreau made a living as a land surveyor in Concord before settling into his small cabin on Walden Pond for a couple of years of economic living and escaping “over civilization.”
By most accounts, Thoreau was an excellent surveyor for his mid-19th century time—meticulous, honest, hardworking and always in search of accuracy.
In a book about Thoreau the land surveyor, Patrick Chura writes: “Thoreau prospered for more than a decade as a surveyor in the Concord area because he was considered to be both honest and accurate. He often applied the highest levels of science to many of what were, in reality, run-of-the-mill surveys.”
https://www.xyht.com/humor/a-happy-loneliness/
#landsurveyor #surveying #thoreau #walden
Mike Klonsinski with Berntsen chats with xyHt's Chuck Boteler at the Trimble Dimensions Conference
https://www.xyht.com/videos/mike-klonsinski-with-berntsen-chats-with-xyhts-chuck-boteler-at-the-trimble-dimensions-conference/
#berntsen #trimbledimensions
Berntsen International, Inc.
Final Day to Have Your Say!
The 2022 xyHt reader poll wraps up on Tuesday (11/15). If you haven’t lent your opinions yet, please do. Five participants who complete the questionnaire will win $50 gift cards!
www.surveymonkey.com/r/2022xyHt
#xyht #geospatial #survey #readerpoll
Map by the ESA Reveals All Water on Mars
A new map of Mars is changing the way we think about the planet’s watery past and showing where we should land in the future. The map shows mineral deposits across the planet and has been painstakingly created over the last decade using data from ESA’s Mars Express Observatoire pour la Mineralogie, l’Eau, les Glaces et l’Activité (OMEGA) instrument and NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument.
Specifically, the map shows the locations and abundances of aqueous minerals. These are from rocks that have been chemically altered by the action of water in the past and have typically been transformed into clays and salts.
https://tinyurl.com/xyht112208
#mars #water
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jeff Thoreson chats with John Tamplin of Seafloor at the Trimble Dimensions Conference
https://www.xyht.com/videos/jeff-thoreson-chats-with-john-tamplin-of-seafloor-at-the-trimble-dimensions-conference/
#seafloor #trimbledimensions #geospatial
Seafloor Systems, Inc.
The weekly news recap is now available and includes companies such as RIEGL, Geo Week and more. Click the link below to stay up to date on all things geospatial!
https://www.xyht.com/pressreleases/xyht-weekly-news-recap-11-11-2022/
#news #geospatial #geoweek #riegl #AI #NGA
xyHt's Chuck Boteler chats with Kevin Garcia of Trimble at the Trimble Dimensions Conference
https://www.xyht.com/videos/xyhts-chuck-boteler-chats-with-kevin-garcia-of-trimble-at-the-trimble-dimensions-conference/
#trimble #trimbledimensions
Trimble Inc.
UAS and ALTA Surveys – Part Three
Precision, accuracy, and completeness are the end goals of UAS post processing, but how you get there to meet ALTA standards requires extra care.
In Parts One and Two of this article in the September and October 2022 issues of xyHt we looked at the time/cost/precision proposition of using UAS for elements of ALTA surveys, and best practices for field operations. In this installment we examine best practices for processing and feature extraction.
https://www.xyht.com/aerialuas/uas-and-alta-surveys-part-three/
#ALTA #Applanix #geolocation #lidar #photogrammetry #surveying #uas #uav
Applanix Corporation
xyHt's Jeff Thoreson chats with Brent Jones of Esri at the Trimble Dimensions Conference
https://www.xyht.com/videos/xyhts-jeff-thoreson-chats-with-brent-jones-of-esri-at-the-trimble-dimensions-conference/
#esri #trimbledimensions
Esri
Trimble Ventures Invests in Civ Robotics’ Autonomous Surveying Solutions
Trimble Ventures, Trimble’s corporate venture capital fund, announced its investment in Civ Robotics, a San Francisco-based construction tech startup focusing on transforming surveying layout for civil engineering and infrastructure projects.
The construction industry faces a variety of challenges, including a shortage of skilled workers, safety, and productivity. Civ Robotics addresses these challenges with CivDot, a new autonomous surveying solution that empowers efficiency, productivity, and safety on the job. CivDot is an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) designed for civil engineering and infrastructure projects such as solar farms, roadways, data centers, power plants and more.
Augmenting the surveyors work, CivDot marks thousands of coordinates per day precisely and efficiently while delivering layouts faster than traditional methods.
https://tinyurl.com/xyht112208
#trimble #CivDot #robot #geospatial #surveying #robotics #UGV
Trimble Inc. CivRobotics
Sounds Good -
Using powerful simulation algorithms, this young and award-winning acoustics software startup from Iceland is making sound visible. No wonder it’s already creating a buzz in the BIM community.
For Finnur Pind and Jesper Pedersen, success started inside a dark and windowless basement. Backed by a research grant in 2020 and a free room down in the acoustics lab of the University of Iceland, they started developing an innovative tool that will effectively model how sound moves inside built spaces. Their aim was to produce the highest fidelity possible than what currently available acoustic simulation programs in the AEC sector can achieve.
https://www.xyht.com/bim/sounds-good/
Treble Technologies Danmarks Tekniske Universitet - DTU
#3dmodels #acoustics #AEC #BIM #finland #innovation #Technology #trebletechnologies
xyHt's Chuck Boteler and Jennifer Triana with TopoDot discuss the Trimble Dimensions Conference.
https://www.xyht.com/videos/jennifer-triana-with-topodot-discusses-the-trimble-dimensions-conference-with-xyhts-chuck-boteler/
#xyht #TopoDot #trimbledimensions
Trimble Inc.
New Digital World Needs Data
Next-generation surveyors require specialized education and training to fill the role of geospatial data specialists.
Many emerging geospatial applications, such as digital twins, 3D modeling, monitoring, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles, are based on big digital datasets. Building a 3D digital world starts with accurate data that ties to a point on the ground, so everything correctly relates to everything else for designs and measurements.
Demand for trained surveyors to obtain that data offers attractive opportunities that go far beyond boundary surveys. Additional training and expertise with advanced surveying technology is needed.
https://www.xyht.com/surveying/new-digital-world-needs-data/
#3D #3dmodeling #auv #digitaltwins #engineering #geodesy #geospatial #hydrography #laserscanning #NSPS #photogrammetry #pointclouds #remotesensing #surveying #surveyors #Topographic #virtualreality
Penn State Wilkes-Barre Leica Geosystems Borton-Lawson NSPS - The National Society of Professional Surveyors
Trash-loving Drones Clean Up the Great Lakes
Midwest retailer Meijer is trying a different kind of remediation to the trash problem in and along the Great Lakes. As part of the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup Program, the firm is driving the largest deployment of robotics technologies in what represents the largest surface freshwater system in the world. Two drones, BeBot, a beach screening robot and PixieDrone, a mobile waste collector, work as a team to keep the beaches clean.
The two drones are from the French coastal waste management firm The Searial Cleaners which is tasking autonomous robots (aka drones or Uncrewed Ground Vehicles) to tackle waste management in coastal areas.
https://tinyurl.com/xyht112208
#drones #greatlakes #trash #autonomous #geospatial
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