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xyHt Magazine July / August 2026
Read the July/August xyHt digital edition. Table of Contents A Field Guide by RoleINTERGEO returns to Munich September 15–17 — what’s worth a surveyor’s, a GIS manager’s, or a BIM lead’s floor time, organized by role. Inside ConcordiaTopcon’s PNT proving ground near Modena, where trust in precision gets built, tested, and re-tested in the field,...
Field Report From Concordia: Inside Topcon’s PNT Field of Dreams
A first-person visit to Topcon’s Concordia Training Center near Modena, Italy, reveals a purpose-built center of excellence where place, precision and trust come together. Near Modena, in northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, it is impossible to separate technology from place. This is Italy’s high-performance automotive heartland, home to Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Bugatti and Pagani — some...
GEO-MEASURE: Bringing Precision to the Ground
GEO-MEASURE is a compact RTK receiver, but its significance may lie less in what it replaces than in what it enables. From a professional surveyor’s control network to a software engineer’s avocado farm in Japan, the device illustrates how lower-cost, easier-to-use positioning tools are narrowing the distance between the physical world and the digital systems...
Topcon and GreenValley International Collaborate on Spatial Intelligence Innovations
Topcon Positioning Systems announced it has entered a strategic agreement with GreenValley International (GVI) to collaborate on technologies for surveying, mapping, construction, forestry and other spatial intelligence related applications. Planned innovations will include integrated hardware and software solutions for handheld, aerial, and mobile LiDAR data collection and processing workflows, with developments extending into robotic systems,...
Inventing the Workflow: How Phoenix LiDAR Helped Build the Market It Now Serves
When Grayson Omans, founder and CEO of Phoenix LiDAR Systems, described the company’s transition into its next chapter following the Revolution Geosystems acquisition, he did not sound like a man delivering a polished exit line. He sounded like someone who had spent years living inside the pressure of building a company and was finally ready to...
The Right Tool for the Right Layer: How Tetra Tech Rooney Is Rethinking Reality Capture
A Design Technology Manager at one of the nation’s largest engineering and technical services firms explains why a mixed-capture strategy — terrestrial scanner, SLAM, drone, and phone — beats any single technology approach. Tetra Tech is one of the largest engineering and technical services firms in the United States, a publicly traded company with operations...