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Mapping Peripheral
A review of Trimble’s R1, a GNSS Bluetooth peripheral for mobile devices, with multiple options for correction sources. The idea of a GNSS “puck” has broad appeal: a peripheral GNSS receiver to precision-enable mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets, and a variety of purpose-built field-data-collection devices. There is a lot of functional territory between...
xyHt news Links: 4/3/15
SAM expands survey capacity with second Lynx Mobile Mapper Topcon releases newest vehicle mounted 3D mobile mapping system Surphaser new model press release The new 3D laser scanner of Zoller + Fröhlich New FARO Software PointSense for Revit New Leica ScanStations and Point Cloud Software Raise 3D Laser Scanning to Next Level ClearEdge3D Announces the...
Maximizing the Sun
Solar energy grows in part due to aerial imaging and surveying. Solar power is booming in the United States. “Every three weeks,” President Obama said in his 2015 State of the Union address, “we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.” Geospatial technologies—especially remote sensing and surveying—play an important...
Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science: the Next Wave of Surveyors
The innovative Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science is educating the next wave of surveying and geomatics professionals at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi.If you were to endow a new facility for a surveying school and university campus, where would you put the building? To a surveyor, the choice is obvious: on the highest point...
TaunusTurm: High-level Surveying
Plumb, level, and precise: Surveyors maintain the highest level of positional integrity throughout the surveying and construction of Europe’s unique and striking new skyscraper. Until quite recently, you might not have seen a lot of European city skylines dominated by shining glass towers, but this is changing. New skyscrapers are rising in such cities as...
U.S. Steel and the Business of Surveying
Years ago, when I was managing editor of a magazine serving the steel industry, I learned an important lesson in business from one of the greatest leaders in the steel-making profession, the chairman of the board of U.S. Steel Corporation. Ed Speer was not an MBA from Harvard. He was a steel worker who rose through the...
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