Blog

A Fine Line

Notes from a visit to the new production facility for Topcon and Sokkia optical surveying instruments. I asked Tsutomu Ishibashi, a production line technician at Topcon’s Yamagata manufacturing facility, what message he would like to convey to the surveyors who use the products he helps produce. His answer was, “We are always trying to improve,...

I-Shoku-Ju

A joint interview with Topcon president and CEO, Satoshi “Steve” Hirano, and Topcon Positioning Systems president and CEO, Ray O’Connor. I recently had an opportunity to sit down with Satoshi “Steve” Hirano, president and CEO of Topcon Corporation, for a candid interview at the company’s global headquarters (THQ) in Tokyo. The timing of this visit...

xyHt Magazine August 2018 Issue

Click on the cover below to view the August 2018 issue of xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include (links will turn live throughout August): A Fine Line – Notes  from a visit to the new production facility for Topcon and Sokkia optical surveying instruments. I-Shoku-Ju – A joint interview with Topcon president and CEO, Satoshi “Steve”...

Weekly xyHt News Links: 07/27/2018

Esri launches indoor mapping solution HxGN SmartNet, AZGPS to expand GNSS correction services in US Carlson SurvCE and SurvPC 6.0 Available Now Frontier Precision announces acquisition of Aerial Horizons UAS in Sioux Falls, SD CompassTools Sells to Frontier Precision New Esri Connection to Microsoft Flow Offers Instant Mapping and Sharing of Field-Sourced Data  

Not Everything Requires High Accuracies

How feature inspection, assessment, and reporting are now available to non-experts (and experts alike). In the early 2000s, Leon Toorenburg was in Africa mapping the locations of communications and utility towers. He was carrying a laser range finder, a camera, a GPS receiver, a laptop, and a field stick. It occurred to him that there...

Pangaea

Find Your Home – on Pangaea

First, a bit of “geosplaining.” When we started this newsletter we looked for a name that had a “geo” feel without having geo in the name. For those who don’t follow geology, Pangaea was the most recent supercontinent which was formed roughly 200 to 250 million years ago, according to the plate tectonics theory. Flash...

Advertisement