Category Archives: GNSS/Location Tech
Topcon 2.0 in Practice
How Connected Workflows Are Redefining Geospatial and Construction Execution Over the past decade, geomatics has shifted from a discipline defined primarily by measurement accuracy to one increasingly shaped by workflow execution. Sensors are more capable, data volumes larger, and project timelines tighter, while survey, GIS, and construction activities now routinely overlap. In this environment, the...
Trust at 165 MPH
What Endurance Racing Teaches Us About Precision, Performance, and Continuous Improvement The sun sets low over the flat Florida horizon. As daylight fades at Daytona International Speedway, the infield comes alive in a different way. Campers glow with headlamps and LED strips. Fans drift between trailers, timing screens, and television monitors. Some wake in the...
Beyond the Science Project: Productizing the Future of Sensor Fusion
XYHT – Q&A with Peter Mardaleichvili and Lukas Meier, Fixposition When Fixposition showed its latest xFusion™ solutions at Equip Expo, Agritechnica, and INTERGEO, one theme came through clearly from OEMs and integrators: they are done with “science project” stacks. They want fusion that is robust, repeatable, and ready to ship. Fixposition says that is exactly what they are building: a productized...
Penguin Conservationists Use Maps and Satellite Images to Win Landmark Court Case
Penguins split their lives between land and sea, adapting with tenacity to the growing threats they face in both worlds. When those threats become too great, the people working to protect penguins are equally tenacious. Such was the case following a deeply disturbing act of environmental destruction along Argentina’s central coast. A local rancher bulldozed...
The Trimble Line: Accuracy, Trust and the Future of Connected Work
For more than two decades, Trimble Applanix has shaped the practice of mobile mapping and survey-grade positioning in air, land and marine domains. Today, it sits at the center of Trimble’s broader move toward connected workflows, subscription-based performance, and end-to-end accuracy. Few people have watched that evolution more closely than Steve Woolven, who has overseen Trimble...
Precision or Nothing: The Millimeter-Level Future of Geomatics
By any measure, INTERGEO 2025 marks a turning point for Topcon. But for CEO Ivan Di Federico, the momentum behind this shift started well before the show floor opened. It began last November, when he outlined what would become Topcon 2.0—a reset of the company’s identity that re-centers geomatics as a foundational discipline and sets a...