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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 Geo Systems 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...
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...
The Image as Evidence
Time-stamped, location-aware imagery has quietly crossed a threshold from documentation to trusted record. The geospatial profession is now in the business of producing evidence — and the standards have not caught up to the stakes. A surveyor flying a bridge deck, a GIS technician cataloging post-storm damage, a mapping firm delivering obliques to an insurer:...
Leave No Fingerprints: Survey-Grade Accuracy in an Era of Zero Disruption
There is a version of a great survey that nobody even notices happened. No lane closures. No overnight crews in reflective vests. No targets bolted to deck surfaces. No personnel standing on live structures. No disruption to the vessels passing underneath or the aircraft taxiing overhead. The infrastructure keeps operating exactly as it did before...
The Duct Tape Principle
The geospatial industry has never been short on capability. That said, industry leaders have learned to look beyond the technology, to lead with problems instead of solutions. The most successful seek to find the places where people are improvising, stitching together workarounds, doing something difficult and expensive because no better option exists, and to start...