Kompass offers business a management solution built by surveyors Managing an expanding AEC company requires skill and patience, but growing the company calls for far-sighted strategy. Better ways to do routine tasks must be implemented, even for tasks like timesheets and human resources. Sometimes when that happens, the efficiencies can be astounding. The savings have been great as a result of a Boston-based geospatial company adopting the Kompass platform; so great that the company has been able to grow substantially. Kai Duebbert, founder and CEO of Kompass, with clients Paul Feldman (righ ..read more

Strategic Agreements Integrate Topcon, Bentley Systems and Worldsensing  Space Flight Laboratory Deploys HawkEye 360 Microsatellite Clusters 8 and 9  Surveying Museum Coming to Historic Fort Steuben in Ohio  Register for Xponential 2024: The Technology Event for Autonomy  Quanergy Launches Next-Generation 3D LiDAR Solutions   Percepto Achieves Groundbreaking BVLOS Approval for Drone Operations in Germany  Trimble Dimensions Call for Speakers  The post xyHt Weekly News Recap: 04/12/2024 appeared first on xyHt ..read more

Urban mobility in Europe gets a much-needed boost as cities develop digital twins for their road networks If you ever find yourself riding one of London’s iconic taxis, a chat with the driver will surely turn to the city’s worsening traffic situation. Cabbies should know, because along with other motorists and commuters in the UK’s capital, they are spending more time stuck in gridlock. Innovative digital twin technologies can improve urban mobility planning. Congestion in London is notoriously horrific causing people to lose an average of 156 hours in 2022. That’s roughly equivalent to a f ..read more

Replacing NAD 83 and NAVD 88 have been in the works for a long time; now the change is getting near The surveying and geospatial communities in the United States have been using geodetic datums that were designed and implemented at a time when the Global Positioning System (GPS) was in its infancy. Yes, we are referring to NAD 83 and NAVD 88, the horizontal and vertical geodetic datums that have been in use for decades. Well, changes are coming to the nation’s positioning infrastructure and all our geospatial data. NOAA surveyor carrying a tripod in American Samoa. The National Geodetic Sur ..read more

The destructive threat of wildfire is a global concern. In 2022 Germany recorded 2,397 wildfires with a size of more than 3,058 hectares (7,556 acres) of destroyed forests.   To address this threat, an ongoing research project—initiated by Landkreis Goerlitz (a county in the state of Saxonia) and the Ministry for Digital Matters and Mobility (BMDV)—Germany in cooperation with GGS, a German geospatial services firm, focuses on monitoring an overall forest area of 170 square kilometers (66 square miles) in Northeast Germany.  The goal was to determine the viability of using geospatia ..read more

TDI-Brooks Completes Large Survey Campaign Off New York/New Jersey Coast  Bowman Consulting has acquired St. Louis-based geospatial engineering firm, Surdex Corporation  Descartes Labs Acquires Geosite  Register for Xponential 2024: The Technology Event for Autonomy  National Robotics Week: April 6-14  Vexcel Data Program To Add 6 New Countries to Its Aerial Collection  Kongsberg Discovery Launches New Hydrographic Surveying Solution   u-blox Launches GNSS Platform for Urban Environments  The post xyHt Weekly News Recap: 04/05/2024 appeared first on ..read more

For nearly three decades, the foundational technology and design of precision levels for surveying has not changed much. It has not had to. Sometimes, when something is done right the best course is to stick with it. Much has been written about the 50-year milestone of the Global Positioning System, while another 50-year milestone has been largely overlooked. It has been half a century since the technology of precision levels for surveying and geodesy reached what is widely considered to be its peak. And it has been nearly 30 years since automation was added to deliver such precision in a tim ..read more

Global Surveyor’s Day is March 21  Public Comments Sought on Draft ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standard Version 2.0  Commercial UAV Announces 2024 Advisory Board  Woolpert Acquires Ireland-Based Murphy Geospatial, a Leading European Geospatial Firm  Chung Hsing Brings Geospatial Data Acquisition to the Next Level in Taiwan  Topcon Announces MC-Max Asphalt Paving and Milling Solutions  Bilanciai Group and Topcon Announce Strategic European Collaboration  World of Asphalt, AGG1 Shatter Records with Unprecedented Surge in Attendance  Save $200 on Trimble Dime ..read more

By Ben Shinabery Louisville’s massive Mega Caverns presented challenges for a huge subterranean survey Every day more than 150,000 people drive past the interstate billboards advertising the Louisville Mega Caverns not realizing they just drove over what is classified as the largest commercial building in Kentucky, even though it is entirely underground. What once was a massive subterranean limestone quarry in the heart of urban Louisville is now an environmentally conscious, high-security commercial storage facility that is so massive it contains the only fully underground aerial ropes challe ..read more

  I have never been to Louisville, Kentucky, but even if I had I’m sure all of my business or exploration there would have been above ground. But beneath parts of the city of more than 600,000 is the Louisville Mega Cavern, an underground space of 100 acres created by years of mining rock.  The cavern is so big it has more square footage than the 94-story One World Trade Center. The space is so massive you can take a two-hour ziplining adventure into parts of the cavern most people never see. You can ride a tram that takes you on a geologic adventure to explore some of the 17 miles o ..read more