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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...
The Unity Thesis: Trimble’s Case for One Connected Asset Lifecycle
From GIS context and survey-grade positioning to asset management and field capture, Trimble is making the case for one connected asset lifecycle — a system in which precise location, operational software and shared data reinforce one another, and where the AI layered on top is valued less for novelty than for producing consistent, trustworthy results....
Esri User Conference 2026: What the Sessions Add Up To
More than fifteen thousand people filled the San Diego Convention Center for Esri’s 46th annual User Conference this year, with roughly that many more watching by livestream from 117 countries. Taken session by session, the program is a wide survey of a mapping platform still expanding in every direction. Taken together, it resolves into a...
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...
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