Category Archives: Construction/BIM
xyHt and FARO Nov. 4 Webinar on Hybrid Scanning Workflows for Roadway Surveys
xyHt will host a live webinar with FARO on Wednesday, November 4, at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT), examining how hybrid scanning workflows are changing the way surveyors capture, process and deliver geospatial data. The session, titled “Building Better with Hybrid Scanner Workflows,” is free to attend with registration. Register Here to Reserve Your...
Agentic AI Has to Know Where It Is
Esri’s distinguished product manager for geospatial AI has been shipping AI inside ArcGIS since the ArcMap era. A conversation after this year’s User Conference covers the real difference between an AI assistant and an agent, why Esri built its own governance board around the distinction, and what MCP actually solves for a profession that can’t...
Digital Twins Are a Journey, Not a Product
Esri’s Technology Director for AEC spent roughly three decades on the industry side, most of it at Arcadis, before joining Esri to work the problem from the platform side. His case for digital twins starts with the mix of expertise required inside an AEC firm and ends with a flood-control system in South Florida he...
Reality Capture Is Becoming the New Mapping Process
Esri’s CTO of Digital Twins spent years building the photogrammetry engine underneath ArcGIS Reality before Esri acquired his company outright. A conversation after this year’s User Conference covers what changed when Gaussian splatting arrived, why survey-grade accuracy still matters in an AI-driven capture environment, and what a working geospatial digital twin actually looks like in...
Topcon Releases Advanced Version of Delta Watch, Now Powered by GEOvis
Topcon Positioning Systems announces Delta Watch powered by GEOvis, a cloud-based workflow platform that brings advanced visualization, reporting, alarms, project administration, stakeholder communication, and geodetic network adjustment into the Delta Solutions deformation monitoring system. Developed with Amberg Infra 7D and based on GEOvis technology, Delta Watch integrates automated and manually collected data from total stations,...
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...